12 Pakistanis held in Kutch Creek area, two boats seized

Twelve Pakistani nationals were arrested and their boats seized from Creek area in Gujarat's Kutch district, BSF officials said here today.

BSF Crocodile commandos caught the Pakistanis from the district's west coast by following footmarks left by them in the mud, they said.

The twelve had arrived in two boats, officials said, adding their trawlers got stuck in the marshy creek area as the sea water had receded.

The Pakistani nationals were handed over to Narayan Sarovar police station, from where they would be taken to the Joint Interrogation Centre in the district headquarters of Bhuj for questioning by various intelligence agencies.

Besides fishing equipment, nothing incriminating was found from the seized boats, BSF officials said.

The creek, which opens into the Arabian Sea, divides the Kutch region of Gujarat with the Sindh province of Pakistan.

On February 1, the BSF had seized three boats and arrested a Pakistani national while five of his accomplices had managed to escape.