Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif to seek India's help as Pak Navy fails to retrieve missing bodies of 14 fishermen
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Islamabad, Mar 11: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has decided to seek India's help as Pakistan Navy has been unsuccessful in retrieving the bodies of 14 fishermen who are missing after their boat capsized near Keti Bandar in the country’s Sindh province.
Forty-five fishermen belonging to Ibrahim Hyder-- a fishing village in the Malir district of Sindh, had gone fishing but their boat capsized at Hijamkro Creek near Keti Bandar in Thatta on March 5. Thirty-one of the fishermen were saved while 14 others were still missing.
According to Dawn report, MNA Agha Rafiullah of the Pakistan Peoples Party said that he had talked to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Saturday, asking them to approach Indian authorities and seek their help to trace the missing fishermen.
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He said the PM assured him that the government would take up that matter with the Indian authorities as there were ‘apprehensions’ that tidal waves might have taken the missing fishermen to the territorial limits of India.
Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum official Kamal Shah apprehended that high waves might have taken the fishermen to the territorial waters of India as they had not been found after search of four days by the PN, MSA and Edhi Foundation.