One hundred and eighty Indian nationals, including 179 fishermen, were released from Karachi’s Landhi jail on Saturday.

The prisoners were released on completion of their sentences.

The freed individuals, accompanied by policemen for security reasons, would leave the Malir jail in four buses and after travelling by road they would reach Lahore on Sunday morning and then Pakistani authorities would hand them over to their Indian counterparts at the Wagah Border between 10am and 11am.

Some 362 Indian prisoners are still being held in jails across Pakistan out of which 276 of the sentenced are fishermen.