Pakistan releases over 160 Indian fishermen
Pakistan has released a group of more than 160 Indian fishermen as a goodwill gesture, Pakistani officials say.
According to Pakistani officials, a group of 164 Indian fishermen were freed in the southwestern port city of Karachi on Sunday.
The group includes an eleven-year-old boy who was taken into custody with his uncle when they entered into the Pakistan territorial waters for fishing.
The freed Indian fishermen said they had been treated well in Pakistan.
The Indian fishermen will be handed over to the Indian officials at the Wahga border, a road border crossing between the two countries near the Pakistani eastern city of Lahore.
Last month in a meeting in Russia, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi agreed that they would release all fishermen in two weeks.
However, the release was delayed for a few days due to escalations and growing tensions between the two neighbors over cross-border fire exchanges.
The prime ministers of the two countries also agreed to reduce tensions along their de-facto border dividing the disputed Kashmir.
Indian and Pakistani coastal guards routinely catch fishermen who cross maritime borders.
The groups working for the welfare of the fishermen say the fishermen mistakenly enter the other side's water.
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