Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said on Saturday that a fisherman from Pakistan was arrested by the Indian coast guard, and was forced and coerced into carrying out tasks for the neighbouring country’s intelligence agency.
Addressing a press conference in Islamabad alongside Minister of State for Interior Talal Chaudhary, he said that Indian media was creating a false narrative in the aftermath of the four-day May conflict with Pakistan.
He said that law enforcement agencies had recently apprehended a fisherman called Ijaz Mallah, who used to go fishing in the high seas.
“In September this year, when he was out fishing, he was arrested by the Indian coast guard and after this arrest, he was taken to an undisclosed location and he was coerced and forced to some tasks for the Indian intelligence agency,” he said.
“He was told that he would be compensated and if he did not comply, he would’ve have to stay imprisoned for two to three years,” he said.
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