KARACHI, Oct 29:
Pakistan today released 68 Indian fishermen held for allegedly violating its territorial waters from Karachi’s Landhi jail as a goodwill gesture.
The fishermen boarded a train to Lahore from where they would be taken to the Wagah border and handed over to Indian authorities.
“We got orders from the Interior Ministry on Saturday (yesterday) to release the Indian fishermen,” Sindh province’s Home Department official Naseem Siddiqui said.
The fishermen were taken in covered police vans in full security to the railway station where volunteers of the Edhi Foundation distributed cash and gifts among the fishermen who were overjoyed to be returning home.
In July, 78 Indian fishermen were released from the Landhi jail.
Around 200 Indian fishermen are still languishing in the Landhi jail here, Naseem said. (PTI)
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