Pakistan Release 68 Indians as Goodwill Gesture

Islamabad-68 Indian fishermen, released yesterday by Pakistan as a goodwill gesture, returned to India through Attari border in Amritsar on Monday.

The fishermen boarded a train to Lahore from where they would be taken to the Wagah border and handed over to Indian authorities.

“We got orders from the Interior Ministry on Saturday to release the Indian fishermen,” Sindh province’s Home Department official Naseem Siddiqui said.

The fishermen were taken in covered police vans in full security to the railway station, where volunteers of the Edhi Foundation distributed cash and gifts among the fishermen who were overjoyed to be returning home.