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Pakistan releases 280 Indian fishermen

KARACHI, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Pakistan said on Tuesday it had released 280 Indian fishermen and 45 boats detained for fishing in Pakistani waters.Khan Mohammad Pirzada, a spokesman of the state-run Pakistan Fishermen's Cooperative Society, said the fisherman would return home in the evening.Pakistan and India often arrest each other's fishermen for fishing in the other's territorial waters in the Arabian Sea.
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