Pakistan’s Maritime Security Agency (MSA) late night yesterday arrested at least 61 Indian fishermen after they strayed into South Asian country’s territorial waters.
The Maritime Security Agency (MSA) said the fishermen were arrested in the small hours while their 11 boats were also seized.
“We arrested the fisherman from the neighboring country late Thursday night after they violated our territorial limits, fishing illegally into Pakistani waters,” sources quoted an MSA spokesman as saying.
Fishermen from both countries are frequently held for straying across the disputed and poorly defined maritime boundary in the Arabian Sea.
