Pak to release 70 Indian fishermen
Bureau Report

KARACHI—Pakistan is to release 70 Indian fishermen detained for illegally entering Pakistani territorial waters, a government official said on Thursday. The fishermen will be released on Friday as officials from the two countries begin talks on their disputed maritime boundary.
Most of the Indian fishermen were arrested over the past two years in the disputed Sir Creek, an estuary between India’s western state of Gujarat and Pakistan’s Sindh province. “They will be handed over to Indian authorities on Friday,” said Faqir Mohammad Jadam Mangrio, an adviser to the Sindh provincial government. Mangrio said the fishermen would be handed over at the Wagah border crossing in eastern Pakistan. Twenty of the fishermen to be released were boys in their teens, detained on boats with older men, he said. They had been kept at a separate children’s detention facility in Karachi.