Pakistan announced the release of 35 fishermen held for violating territorial waters, a day after the Saarc summit closed. The fishermen and one civilian were released from the Malir prison after completing their sentences. The prisoners will be repatriated to India through the Wagah border in Lahore.
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indian
Nov 29, 2014 01:30pm
Thanks pak authority
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pakwatan
Nov 29, 2014 02:23pm
both countries should solve this issue without holding these poor guys in custory. if they are real fishermen whey do we hold them. asking you both countries regime?
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sharabi
Nov 29, 2014 02:40pm
wow a few days ago Pak Navy sackled 70 Fishermen now freed 35, Nice 2:1 ratio,
BTW i think Mr. Modi should release poor fishermen as well. Good job Pakistan Thank you
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Mahendra Singh
Nov 29, 2014 04:12pm
Thanks for showing concerns for these poor men. I see eidhi bags with them, they do all good humanitarian jobs. Why not a noble for Eidhi?
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Ali
Nov 29, 2014 04:13pm
What about Pakistan prisoners?
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Ahmed
Nov 29, 2014 04:52pm
Pakistan is releasing these fishermen on regular basis but the question is Hindutva people reciprocating ?
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Sunshine(USA)
Nov 29, 2014 05:31pm
Thank you.
Never underestimate the power of goodness and kind deeds. It comes back to you tenfold.
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sharabi
Nov 29, 2014 05:34pm
@Ahmed
Hindutva? If you are talking about Civilization, Identity, Root then yes you are right, We are Hindu but if you mean Religion i would like to say NO There are More Muslims then your Country not to mention other as well. Next time you should think about it
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Anand
Nov 29, 2014 07:29pm
In fact fishermen from both sides are bound to cross the water of each others. Both countries must have such an agreement to release these innocent people without any delay.
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Vineet
Nov 29, 2014 07:59pm
Thank you Pakistan for nice gesture. Both countries should take a humanitarian view of fishermen problem. They are not terrorist or smugglers. They are poor people just fighting for their hunger.
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ROHIT PANDEY
Nov 29, 2014 09:22pm
ISRO regularly puts out bulletins over the radio to help fishermen in India to direct them to spots where it is highly likely to be a rich fishing ground.
It is based on assessing the plankton, a fish feed, found naturally in the sea? It is found using the remote sensing satellites!
As a note of thanks, Pakistani fishermen should be given free info as well, so there is no intrusion in each others' fishing grounds?:):))
Just a thought?:):)
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Amir Indian
Nov 29, 2014 09:25pm
@Ahmed Hindutva ?????????????????? Are you aware that Hindu,Muslim,Christian,Sikh,Buddhist,Parsi,Jain,Jews living in India not now but for hundreds and
thousands of years. Now I'll explain few things in your own language - India is a Secular Democratic country where a "Sikh" was elected as PM (Manmohan Singh),
a "Muslim" elected as President and Chief Scientist (Dr.Abdul Kalam) or Chief Justice of Supreme Court (M.Hidayatullah), a "Buddhist" elected as Speaker in the Parliament
(Meera Kumari), a "Christian" become Chief of Air Force (N A K Browne), a "Parsi" become leading Industrialist (J R D TATA), a "Jain" become the owner of
biggest media group (Vineet Jain - Times Group), a "Jew" (David Abraham Cheulkar - Bollywood actor during 1945-80, Vijay Samuel Hazare - India Cricket Captain,
Ruby Myers - Bollywood actress of the 1930s known as Sulochana or Fearless Nadia)
And above all that First Indian PM - Jawaharlal Nehru was a Kashmiri Pandit.
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Karan
Nov 30, 2014 01:15am
Thank u Pakistan....India should reciprocate soon by letting pak fishermen go
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Rob
Nov 30, 2014 04:35am
Thanks you pakistan for doing great work toward to poor people. If india hold any fisherman then they should release them immediately.
Thank you Allah.
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Rob
Nov 30, 2014 04:37am
@Ali they are allready back in pakistan. Thank you Pakistani friends and God bless all of us
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formation
Nov 30, 2014 05:24am
i think they looks not willing to go home.
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Nadeem
Nov 30, 2014 05:56am
They look well groomed and in good health. I hope they were treated well in detention.
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Indian
Nov 30, 2014 06:53am
Thanx Pakistan!!!!!
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Sachin
Nov 30, 2014 08:00am
@Ahmed : Why do you bring religion in everything? All my life and all members of my family and extended family - none of us have ever thought of religion in helping people.
Would your heart not ache for non Muslims? My heart would beat even for animals and trees too.
Thankfully animals and trees dont have religion- else people like you would say - oh cut only hindu trees. i find your "Hindutva" slang as pretty disturbing. Get above religion.
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AYZA
Nov 30, 2014 09:35am
Nice to see these poor fishermen finally able to go home due to a benevolent neighbor : ) It appears that Pakistan is sending these sailors home with bags full of food, maybe rice and daal to remember their well spent time in Pakistan where we feed all our guests quite well as part of our "mehmaan nawazish" generosity we inherited from our Mughal and Turkish roots : D deep and noble roots we are very proud of!
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ashok
Nov 30, 2014 11:22am
Thank you Pakistan. Both countries must solve this issue asap. This is doable and must be done.
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Haider @ Jammu
Nov 30, 2014 11:55am
@Amir Indian : There is no point banging your head on a rock, as the Pakistanis will not be able to understand the importance & practice of secularism that we practice in India. That is because the Pakistanis are completely brain-washed by distorted history lessons & rabid hate propaganda against minorities. The religious fanatic overdose has resulted in the Pakistanis completely loosing their ability to reason, logic & rationale. Hence, we can not even have any sensible constructive debate based on logic & rationale with them. Just read the kind of responses we read in comments section, from the Pakistanis like Zak, Dr Salaria, Einstein Babar, etc.
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Abdula Sipai
Nov 30, 2014 12:17pm
Thanks for showing humanity and mankind to these innocent and poor fisherman who just unknowingly got into Pakistani Navy while doing thei jobs. I always hear such stories that Pakistan releases Indian fisherman but very often that India release Pakistani fisherman. Why always Indian fishermen are captured by Pakistani Navy, never heard Indian catching Pakistanis. India always prefer to stop them and send them back their water rather than keeping them hostile. Perhaps Pakistan makes it a matter of publicity to gain cheep news.
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Zak
Nov 30, 2014 12:23pm
@Nadeem they purposely get caught for the Daal and roti they get in detention. They stand out as foreigners in Pakistan, some would mistake them for Africans. Anyway, thanks Pakistan for showing your magnanimity, towards India, as always.
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Sampath
Nov 30, 2014 01:24pm
What about remaining fishermen on either side ?
@Haider - love your comments. Very readable ):
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Shahzad
Nov 30, 2014 02:48pm
Whatever we do people will call us terrorists. :)
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Shahzad
Nov 30, 2014 02:49pm
@Sachin Well Said Dude!
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P.Mishra
Nov 30, 2014 03:19pm
Thank you Pakistan for the good will gesture. There must be some permanent arrangement to show the maritime border between Indian and Pakistan. Once held by any side the poor fishermen get released. Some times it takes even years. This devastates their family.
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Einstein Babar
Nov 30, 2014 06:09pm
Veer Pratab Singh released without Zara Hayat Khan, any way enjoy
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Mudasir
Dec 01, 2014 12:32pm
Imagine what happens to the families, especially socially vulnerable women and children, of the fishermen (both Pakistani and Indian) when they are jailed abroad.
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Sreenath
Dec 02, 2014 10:26am
Thank You very much Pakistan!
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