A ceaseless plight
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April 28, 2021 01:31 IST
Hundreds of fishermen have been languishing in Pakistan’s prisons for years with no end in sight
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Arrested Indian fishermen sit in a police lockup in Karachi on November 18, 2018.
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Hundreds of fishermen have been languishing in Pakistan’s prisons for years with no end in sight
Ramesh Taba Sosa, an Indian fisherman, is the latest victim of an inhuman and skewed system involving India and Pakistan, in which mortal remains of prisoners are not repatriated for months. Sosa died in a prison hospital in Malir Jail, Karachi, Pakistan, on March 26, 2021, but there is no guarantee when his family in Nanavada, near Kodinar in Gujarat, will be able to conduct his last rites.
Crossed over to Pakistan in 2008, Kutch man returns home after 13 years
Crossed over to Pakistan in 2008, Kutch man returns home after 13 years
Kutch resident Ismail Sama had crossed over to Pakistan in 2008 by mistake. 13 years later, he has returned home back to his family.
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Ismail Sama had crossed over to Pakistan by mistake in 2008. (Photo: India Today)
Ismail Sama, a resident of Gujarat s Kutch, has returned back home to India after spending 13 years in Pakistan jail. In 2008, he had crossed over Pakistan by mistake while grazing his herd of cows.
What happened? I had lost my direction and next morning around 10:30 am, Pakistan rangers caught me, telling me I had intruded into their country. They took me to hospital and after my condition improved, they handed me over to inter service’s intelligence(ISI), he said.
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That a poor man ends up spending years in jail due to bureaucratic delays points to a larger issue. But Ismail Sama s repatriation also gives cause for some hope.
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The story of an Indian man repatriated from Pakistan after missing for years, his family ignorant of his whereabouts, highlights the bizarre ‘spy vs spy’ mentality that plagues both countries and their callousness towards not just each otherâs but their own citizens. In this Kafkaesque scenario, it is the poor who primarily pay the price of the ongoing hostility and bureaucratic delays.