India and Pakistan Monday exchanged the lists of civilian prisoners and fishermen in each other’s custody under provisions of the bilateral Agreement on Consular Access 2008, under which the lists are exchanged every year on January 1 and July 1.
India has shared the lists of 366 civilian prisoners and 86 fishermen in India’s custody of Pakistan prisoners.
Pakistan has shared the names of 43 civilian prisoners and 211 fishermen in its custody who are Indian or are believed-to-be-Indian.
As per the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), 2,639 Indian fishermen and 71 Indian civilian prisoners have been repatriated from Pakistan since 2014 including 478 Indian fishermen and 13 Indian civilian prisoners since 2023 till date.
