As many as 338 fishermen are expected to be released from Pakistan jail on Friday. As they would come to India from Wagah border, a team consisting officials from Gujarat Government fisheries department have reached at Amritsar to receive them.
Sources in Gujarat government said that the fishermen are belonging to Gujarat as well as union territory Daman & Diu.
As many as 437 fishermen kept in different jails of Pakistan have completed their term, said a government official. Parimal Nathwani, Member of Rajya Sabha from Jharkhand had written a letter to Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharit in the first week of August to release fishermen on humanitarian grounds. Nathawani, who himself hailing from coastal town Jamnagar had also insisted the Indian PM on the issue.