As many as 18 Indian fishermen along with their three boats were abducted by the Pakistan Marine Security Agency (PMSA) personnel off Jakhau (Kutch) coast on Saturday.
This is the third incident of apprehension of Indian fishermen by PMSA in October. During the month, as many as 117 Indian fishermen and 19 boats were abducted by Pakistan.
Confirming the development, Manish lodhari, secretary of National Fishworkers’ Forum (NFF), informed that the Indian fishermen were abducted by PMSA early in the morning and they were taken to Karachi port. According to lodhari, the boats as well as fishermen onboard are hailing from the coastal town Porbandar.
It is worth mentioning that around a fortnight ago on October 15th PMSA personnel apprehended as many as 27 fishermen along with their four boats. In other similar incident on October 2nd PMSA abducted 12 boats along with 72 fishermen onboard off Jakhau coast. It was not enough but the PMSA guards also opened fired and killed on innocent Indian fisherman too.
As par NFF data 317 fishermen belonging to Gujarat are in Pakistan jail. The neighbouring country has also not returned 850 boats which they had seized during the period of nearly 20 years. However, after Narendra Modi became Prime Minister in May 2014, Pakistan had released 57 boats as goodwill gesture.