A day before Pakistan awarded death sentence to former Indian Navy officer Kulbhushan Jadhav for allegedly spying in Balochistan, the Indian Coast Guard and fishermen saved the lives of two Pakistani sailors, who had inadvertently crossed over to the Indian waters off the coast of Gujarat.
"A small Pakistani Coast Guard boat with six sailors was checking fishing boats in their own waters when they drifted away from their mothership towards Indian waters near the Sir Creek area and toppled here with all its six personnel," said government sources.
The Pakistan Maritime Security Agency chief, who was in China at the time of incident, called up his ICG counterpart in New Delhi for help after which a major search and rescue mission was launched by the Indian government by launching several vessels of the maritime agency in the night time itself.
"A request was also sent to the maritime search and rescue centre in Mumbai for locating their missing sailors," said the sources.
HOW INDIAN FISHING VESSELS SAVED TWO LIVES
After a thorough search in the area near the Sir Creek, Indian fishing vessels informed ship ICGS Samrat about two Pakistan sailors who were rescued from the sea in a very bad shape by them. "The coast guard officials on board provided proper medical care to the Pakistan sailors whose other four colleagues had already lost their lives after their boat toppled in mid-sea," said the sources.
Later, the Indian vessels also helped in recovering the four bodies.
On Monday, the Indian ships took the bodies along with the two rescued and handed them over to naval warship PNS Alamgeer in Pakistan waters across the International Maritime Boundary Line off the coast of Gujarat.
However, the Indian gesture in saving the lives of Pakistani military personnel was not reciprocated by their higher ups as on Monday morning Pakistan Army Chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa confirmed the death sentence awarded to Jadhav by an Army military court for alleged espionage and sabotage activities in a farce trial.
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