Pakistan frees 100 Indian fishermen
Afp, Karachi
Pakistan released 100 Indian fishermen, including 28 children, as a goodwill gesture yesterday, ahead of the South Asian neighbours' 60th independence anniversaries next week, officials said. The fishermen had been languishing in local jails since last year for poaching in Pakistani territorial waters, the officials said. Seventy-two Indian men were released from Karachi's Landhi Jail while 28 children, aged between 12 and 17 years, were freed from the port city's juvenile prison, provincial home minister Wasim Akhtar said. "They have been sent in two buses to Lahore where they will be handed to the Indian government officials at the Wagah border on Monday," he said.
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