Border Security Force (BSF) on Thursday arrested 30 Pakistani fishermen and took into custody their boats for illegally entering Indian Martime boundary near Padala creek off Kutch district, BSF officals said. ...
02:03 AM, Feb 22, 2013
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
New Delhi: In a goodwill gesture on the eve of Eid-ul-Fitr, India on Friday announced the release of 85 Pakistani prisoners, most of them fishermen lodged in various jails in the country. On Thursday, the Union Home Ministry ordered the release 58 Pakistani fishermen lodged in Gujarat jails. The state government has been advised to move the appropriate court in respect of the fishermen facing trial so that the...
05:31 PM, Sep 10, 2010
