January 16th
NEW DELHI: The Indian Coast Guard on Thursday apprehended two Pakistani boats with 17 Pakistanis off the Gujarat coast.
"While carrying out patrolling inside our International Maritime Boundary (IMB), one of our fast patrolling craft P-142 apprehended two Pakistani fishing trawlers with 17 Pakistanis on it, 12 nautical miles off the Cori creek coast in Gujarat," a Coast Guard official said.
After apprehending the boats, the ICG ship towed it to Jakhau coast, where all the arrested Pakistanis were being interrogated.
"All the 17 apprehended men are being interrogated by the Joint Interrogation Cell (JIC) of the agencies present there and we will come to know about their intentions and reasons for venturing in Indian waters," he said.
The official did not rule out the possibility of the two boats being used for carrying out anti-India activities.
After the 26/11 Mumbai terror strikes, the ICG had put all its assets on high alert searching for vessels. The terrorists had used such trawlers to enter Indian waters.
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