{"id":2974,"date":"2014-05-25T06:30:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T06:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir-today.net\/?p=2974"},"modified":"2014-05-25T06:30:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T06:30:23","slug":"pakistan-frees-59-indian-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=2974","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan frees 59 Indian prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000\">Pakistan\u00a0Sunday released 59 Indian prisoners as a goodwill gesture ahead of Prime Minister\u00a0Nawaz Sharif&#8217;s visit to NewDelhi\u00a0to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Indian Prime Minister-elect\u00a0Narendra\u00a0Modi, officials said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000\">The Indian prisoners, mostly fishermen, were freed from a jail in the port city of Karachi. They will be handed over to the Indian authorities at Wagah border Monday, the officials said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000\">The fishermen were arrested for illegally entering Pakistani waters and fishing, Xinhua reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000\">Pakistan and India routinely arrest fishermen from entering each other&#8217;s waters for fishing. They enter other&#8217;s waters as there is no determination of maritime boundaries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000\">Freed Indian prisoners told reporters outside the Karachi&#8217;s Malir jail that they are happy at their release. They also said they were treated well and were not subjected to torture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000\">Modi invited heads of all the member states of South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC) for his swearing-in ceremony. The invitation to Sharif was attached great importance in view of tense ties between the two neighbours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u00a0Sunday released 59 Indian prisoners as a goodwill gesture ahead of Prime Minister\u00a0Nawaz Sharif&#8217;s visit to NewDelhi\u00a0to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Indian Prime Minister-elect\u00a0Narendra\u00a0Modi, officials said. The Indian prisoners, mostly fishermen, were freed from a jail in the port city of Karachi. They will be handed over to the Indian authorities at Wagah border [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-2974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-news","tag-pakistan-delhi-narendra-narendra-modi-nawaz-sharif-new-delhi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}