Pakistan frees 20 Indian fishermen, dozens still in prison
2 years, 6 months ago

Pakistan frees 20 Indian fishermen, dozens still in prison

Associated Press  

KARACHI, Pakistan — Pakistan has freed 20 Indian fishermen who spent four years in prison in the port city of Karachi for violating the country’s territorial waters, an official said Sunday. The group left the prison and boarded a bus for the eastern city of Lahore carrying sweets and gifts handed out by a charity, said Kamran Ahmed Sheikh, a prison official. Sheikh said there were still dozens of Indian fishermen in the prison awaiting release. The two nuclear armed south Asian neighbors, who gained independence from British colonial rule in 1947, are archrivals mainly because of the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.

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