Eighty fishermen launched from a jail in Karachi in Pakistan reached Vadodara in Gujarat by practice on Sunday, from the place they have been taken to Veraval within the state’s Gir Somnath district by bus to be reunited with their households for Diwali, an official mentioned.
The fishermen have been launched by Pakistani authorities on Thursday and have been handed over to a staff of the State’s fisheries division on the Attari-Wagah border in Punjab the subsequent day, an official launch mentioned.
That they had left the Gujarat coast at common intervals in 2020 and have been held by the maritime forces of Pakistan for allegedly fishing in that nation’s waters.
Of the 80 fishermen who’ve been launched, 59 are from Gir Somnath district, 15 from Devbhoomi Dwarka, two from Jamnagar, one from Amreli, all in Gujarat, whereas three are from the Union Territory of Diu, the discharge mentioned.
“All of them were caught in 2020. About 200 fishermen are still languishing in Pakistani jails. The freed fishermen will be able to celebrate Diwali with their families,” mentioned the discharge.
In Could and June this 12 months, the Pakistan authorities had launched practically 400 Indian fishermen.