Lahore: A bus transporting 15 Indian fishermen released from a Pakistani jail met with an accident in Punjab province on Monday, causing minor injuries to four of them, officials said. The Lahore-bound bus collided with a speeding truck at Jehanian, located 330 km from the capital of Punjab province, an official of the Highway Police Patrol said. Four of the fishermen sustained minor injuries and police took them to a...
11:00 PM, Nov 12, 2012
Karachi: Fifteen Indian fishermen were freed from the district Malir jail in Karachi on Sunday with authorities claiming that their release was part of goodwill gestures towards the neighbouring country. The fishermen left the Malir jail to travel to Lahore by bus from where they will cross into India through the Wagah border ahead of the Diwali festival. "They will be handed over to Indian security forces tomorrow (Monday). The...
11:17 PM, Nov 11, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan will free 15 Indian fishermen, who were arrested on charges of violating the country's maritime boundary, on Monday, officials said on Saturday. The fishermen, some of whom had completed their prison terms months ago, will be released from a jail in Karachi. They will be taken to the Wagah land border crossing and repatriated to India, officials of the Indian High Commission told PTI. Leading Pakistani rights activist...
01:43 PM, Nov 10, 2012
Jamnagar: Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA) has apprehended 13 Indian fishermen and seized 12 boats, a fishermen's body said on Tuesday. PMSA on Monday confronted 13 Indian fishing trawlers with 76 fishermen in the international waters off Zakhau Coast. Later, it apprehended 13 fishermen and 12 Indian boats, taking them away to Karachi, National Fish Workers' Forum's national secretary Manish Lodhari told PTI. "However, the PMSA let off a boat...
11:39 PM, Oct 16, 2012
Rameswaram: In the second such incident in two days, six Tamil Nadu fishermen were injured when they were allegedly attacked on Tuesday by the Sri Lankan Navy which also detained 13 others near Katchatheevu in the Palk Straits. Official sources said the Lankan Navymen attacked the fishermen with stones, nylon ropes and rods and took away their three boats. Gnanasekaran, who suffered head injury, has been admitted to a hospital...
11:12 AM, Aug 21, 2012
Islamabad/Karachi: Pakistan on Wednesday released 55 Indian fishermen, including 15 teenagers, from a jail in the southern port city of Karachi as a "goodwill gesture" on the occasion of India's Independence Day. The fishermen, most of them from Gujarat, were released from the Malir jail and put on buses for Lahore, from where they will be repatriated via the Wagah land border on Thursday. "It is a gesture of goodwill...
12:36 AM, Aug 16, 2012
Rameswaram: Sri Lankan naval personnel allegedly attacked 10 boats of Indian fishermen with stones and logs when they were fishing near Katchativu early this morning. Fisheries department officials said the naval personnel also cut the fishing nets in the boats and threw them into the sea. No fisherman was injured in the incident, they said. They said the boats were part of a fleet of 696 boats that had put...
05:18 PM, Jul 29, 2012
Washington: Insisting that the US naval ship had forewarned the Indian fishermen before opening fire, the Pentagon on Thursday said that the incident remains under investigation and one should wait for the outcome of the probe before reaching any conclusions. "We would be pleased to update our Indian counterparts as we learn more through the investigation," Pentagon Press Secretary George Little told reporters at a news briefing. "I would again...
01:22 AM, Jul 20, 2012
Three Indian fishermen who were injured in the firing by the US sailors are now safe and out of danger. ...
07:51 PM, Jul 18, 2012
Dubai: Indian fishermen who survived a hail of gunfire from a American navy boat off the coast of the United Arab Emirates disputed US claims that their boat drew fire after ignoring warnings to steer clear of the American vessel. One Indian was killed and three others injured on Monday when the USNS Rappahannock, a refuelling ship, fired on the fishing vessel, which the US Navy's Fifth Fleet said approached...
10:29 PM, Jul 17, 2012
Mumbai: A group of activists working towards improving India-Pakistan relations on Monday wrote to Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai ahead of his meeting with his counterpart in Pakistan and appealed that he take up the issue of releasing Indian fishermen. "With regard to Mathai's meeting with Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani in New Delhi July 4-5, we have written to him requesting him to address issues that have been troubling...
07:37 PM, Jul 02, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan will release 315 Indian fishermen at the Wagah land border crossing on Thursday, official sources said on Tuesday. The fishermen are currently being held at a jail in Karachi, and they will be freed and sent to Lahore to be handed over to Indian authorities, sources told PTI. Pakistan and India arrest scores of fishermen every year on charges of violating territorial waters. Pakistani officials say over 150...
11:13 PM, Jun 26, 2012
Ahmedabad: The Coast Guard (ICG) has secured the release of 72 Indian fishermen from the custody of Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA), which had held them in the Arabian sea off Jakhau coast since Friday. The PMSA personnel had seized 14 Indian fishing boats off Jakhau coast, with 85 fishermen on board, on April 27, and detained them mid-sea. "ICG Samrat, which was at the International maritime boundary line on...
06:40 PM, Apr 29, 2012
Ahmedabad: Pakistani Marines allegedly open fire on Indian fishermen near International Maritime Boundary Line. One fisherman has been badly injured in the firing. The Indian fishermen were on board the boat Sagar Suraj. The incident happened off the coast of Jakhau, which is close to the Gujarat coastline. There have been incidences in the area of fishermen being taken into custody in the past for trespassing. However, fishermen being shot...
05:34 PM, Apr 27, 2012
Kochi: After families of two fishermen shot dead by marines onboard 'Enrica Lexie' reached a compromise with Italian authorities, the owner of the boat in which the victims were out for fishing has also agreed to settle the case. Notwithstanding the criminal case pending against the two marines involved in the case, Italian authorities have offered Rs 17 lakh to Freddy J, the owner of 'St Antony' boat, his counsel...
06:10 PM, Apr 26, 2012
New Delhi: Notwithstanding the compensation of Rs one crore to the families of two fishermen allegedly killed by two Italian marines, the Ministry of External Affairs on Tuesday said the detention case against those two Italians will continue. Reiterating India's position that it has the jurisdiction over the matter, official spokesperson in the MEA Syed Akbaruddin said there is a case in the Supreme Court over the jurisdiction of Indian...
06:41 PM, Apr 24, 2012
Colombo: A Sri Lankan minister has threatened to take some 5,000 fishermen to India to protest against poaching by Indian fishermen in Sri Lankan waters. Government Minister Douglas Devananda said he would lead the protest to give a message to India that livelihood of the country's fishermen was affected due to poaching by Indian fishermen. "The Indians enter Sri Lankan waters illegally in large trawlers and engage in large scale...
10:50 AM, Apr 23, 2012
Chennai/Thiruvananthapuram: Centre on Saturday distanced itself from Additional Solicitor General Harin Raval's submission in the Supreme Court that India has no jurisdiction to detain an Italian ship from which marines shot dead two Indian fishermen, asserting that it happened in Indian waters. "Government is clear that the incident happened in Indian waters," Shipping Minister GK Vasan told reporters in Chennai. "It might be his personal opinion," Vasan said, responding to...
04:46 PM, Apr 21, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan on Thursday released 26 Indian fishermen, including a cancer patient, from a jail in Karachi. After their release from Malir Jail, the fishermen said the authorities treated them well and they were happy to return to their homes, the Online news agency reported. Samat Lakshman Bambhaniya, the fisherman suffering from cancer, thanked Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari for issuing orders for his release. He said he had entered...
05:04 PM, Apr 12, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan will release 34 Indian prisoners, including a fisherman suffering from cancer, this week as part of steps to normalise relations between the two countries. The prisoners, including 26 fishermen and eight others arrested on charges like illegally crossing the border, are expected to be repatriated via the Wagah border on April 13, Indian and Pakistani officials said on Wednesday. However, leading Pakistani rights activist Ansar Burney has offered...
07:30 PM, Apr 11, 2012
