India on Wednesday said it has provided Pakistan with "actionable evidence" of the involvement of the Pakistani Army in the killing and mutilation of two Indian soldiers on Monday and demanded that Islamabad take action on the incident that again flared bilateral diplomatic tensions.

Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit on Saturday said that authorities were looking into locating the two Indian clerics who went missing after visiting a shrine in Lahore.

The Pakistan government has in principle decided to appoint Abdul Basit, the country's envoy to India, as the new Foreign Secretary, Geo News reported.

Pakistan has been continuously rubbishing reports claiming surgical strikes by Indian Army across Line of Control (LoC) in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).