Via PTI
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will liberate 200 Indian fishermen and 3 civilian prisoners on Friday as a humanitarian gesture, International Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has introduced.
Remaining month, Pakistani government launched 198 Indian fishermen who had been arrested after allegedly fishing illegally within the nation’s waters.
They had been launched from Karachi’s Malir Prison and passed over to India on the Wagah border.
“That is in step with Pakistan’s coverage of no longer politicising humanitarian issues. Compassion must take priority over politics,” Zardari mentioned in a tweet lately.
The Daybreak reported that the 3rd batch of about 100 Indian fishermen is claimed to be launched on July 2.
Consistent with a press liberate through Pakistan’s International Affairs Ministry, as a part of the 2008 Settlement on Consular Get admission to, there are 705 Indian or believed-to-be Indian nationals within the nation on January 1, 2023. Of those, 654 are fishermen.
Pakistan and India often arrest rival fishermen for violating the World Maritime Demarcation Line (IMDL), which is poorly marked at some issues and contested between the 2 countries.
(With On-line table inputs)
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will liberate 200 Indian fishermen and 3 civilian prisoners on Friday as a humanitarian gesture, International Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has introduced.
Remaining month, Pakistani government launched 198 Indian fishermen who had been arrested after allegedly fishing illegally within the nation’s waters.
They had been launched from Karachi’s Malir Prison and passed over to India on the Wagah border.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
“That is in step with Pakistan’s coverage of no longer politicising humanitarian issues. Compassion must take priority over politics,” Zardari mentioned in a tweet lately.
The Daybreak reported that the 3rd batch of about 100 Indian fishermen is claimed to be launched on July 2.
Consistent with a press liberate through Pakistan’s International Affairs Ministry, as a part of the 2008 Settlement on Consular Get admission to, there are 705 Indian or believed-to-be Indian nationals within the nation on January 1, 2023. Of those, 654 are fishermen.
Pakistan and India often arrest rival fishermen for violating the World Maritime Demarcation Line (IMDL), which is poorly marked at some issues and contested between the 2 countries.
(With On-line table inputs)