ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Saturday it had arrested a local fisherman allegedly coerced by Indian intelligence to work for them and carry propaganda material to the neighboring state, including military uniforms, local currency, mobile SIMs of a Chinese company and other items.
Earlier this year in July, Indian Home Minister Amit Shah told parliament that his country's forces had recovered Pakistani voter identity cards and chocolates from a group of slain militants whom he said were also involved in a gun attack in the tourist resort of Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir that took place in April.
New Delhi had blamed Pakistan for the assault, an allegation denied by Islamabad which called for an impartial international probe. The incident led to an intense four-day military conflict between the nuclear-armed neighbors in May before US President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire.
“Recently, we had a big success in which Pakistani law enforcement agencies have apprehended a common fisherman by the name of Ijaz Mallah, who used to go fishing in the high seas,” Federal Information Minister Attaullah Tarar told a news conference in Islamabad. “In September this year, when he was out fishing, he was arrested by the Indian Coast Guard and after this arrest, he was taken to an undisclosed location where he was coerced and forced to do some tasks for the Indian intelligence agency.”
