Around 6 Indian boats, over 30 fishermen reportedly nabbed by Pakistan off Gujarat Coast

Porbandar: The Pakistan Marine Security Agency (PMSA) today again reportedly nabbed around half a dozen boats with over 30 fishermen on board near International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) in the Arabian sea off the Jakhau coast of Gujarat.

With this the PMSA has nabbed 46 boats with over 250 fishermen since March 4 this year.

President of Porbandar Boat Association Bharat Modi today said that there were reports of capture of 6 Indian boats by Pak Marines. ‘The capture of 3 boats; two from Porbandar and 1 from Okha has been confirmed so far. There were 18 fishermen on these 3 boats. The number of caputured boats might go up to 6.

Notably, Pak Marines had nabbed 2 boats (12 fishermen) on March 29 and 19 boat with 104 fishermen on March 24 and 25 from the same area.

Notably, in last around seven months (since August) Pak Marines have so far nabbed over 70 Indian boats with more than 500 Indian fishermen. Since January this year, over 50 boats and more than 200 fishermen have been nabbed.

On March 4, 13 Indian boats with over 70 fishermen and on March 5, 3 such boats with over 15 fishermen were caught.

On January 26 amid the heightened coastal security on the occasion of the 68 the republic day also PMSA had captured around a dozen Indian boats with around 60 fishermen from the same area.
On December 28 the PMSA had captured 13 Indian boats with 65 fishermen from the same area. Prior to that on November 19 also the Pak Marines had abducted 6 Indian boats from the same area with around 36 fishermen on board. In September and August last year also PMSA had captured 6 and 1 boats respectively with 36 and 6 fishermen.

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