May 28 :     ?Nachi, engine flame-out, relighting,? radioed Flight Lieutenant K. Nachiketa seconds after his MiG-27 combat jet developed mechanical trouble while on a mission to bombard infiltrators holed up in the high mountains in the Kargil sector. Seconds later, he bailed out saying: ?Nachi ejecting now?. That was yesterday afternoon. Today, a person identified as Nachiketa was paraded on state-run Pakistan Television. The camera zoomed in on the person in Indian flight suit, his name tag in focus on the television screen. He looked calm, apart from a darkening welt on his forehead. He did not speak. An Indian Air Force officer later said Nachiketa is a bachelor whose only family is an ailing father. ?We are treating him as a prisoner of war and treating him according to the Geneva Convention,? said a Pakistani army commander. ?More than that, we are treating him in the Islamic tradition, with hospitality and care,? he added. Pakistan did not say when Nachiketa would be handed over to the Indian authorities. India has demanded that Nachiketa be returned, saying that he is not a prisoner of war because the two nations are not at war. Pakistan, however, is holding him in a military base outside occupied Kashmir. Earlier, journalists were allowed to see Nachiketa but not allowed to interview him. They were not permitted to take photographs either. Nachiketa may be ?safe and sound?, but there is little news of the man who went in search of him. Yesterday, as Nachiketa floated down in a parachute, another IAF pilot, Squadron Leader Ajay Ahuja, hovered over in a MiG-21 to spot the landing area of his colleague. Moments later, Ahuja radioed his team leader: ?Hercules One, suspecting a missile hit.? Ahuja?s plane was shot down by Pakistan. Though India says he is missing in action, Pakistan claimed he had been killed. But till tonight, his body has not been found. Pakistani army took journalists to the wreckage site which was 12 km inside occupied Kashmir. But Indian officials have said that a plane hit while moving at high speed could continue to travel several kilometres off course.