Pakistan has arrested 100 Indian fishermen for allegedly violating its territorial waters off the coast of southern Sindh province, official media reported on Sunday.
The arrests were made on Saturday and the fishermen were brought to provincial capital Karachi.
The Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA), during an operation in the sea off Karachi, confiscated 12 Indian launches and arrested 100 fishermen, Radio Pakistan reported.
According to reports, the launches have been confiscated for violating Pakistani coastal territory.
However, earlier, a PMSA spokesman had said that 70 Indian fishermen had been arrested in Pakistani waters.
“We arrested 70 fishermen on Saturday,” Lt. Commander Wajid Nawaz told PTI.
Both countries regularly arrest fishermen who stray into each other’s waters due to poorly marked sea boundary.
