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India lodges strong protest with Pak over killing of fisherman

New Delhi: India today summoned Pakistan's Deputy High Commissioner Mansoor Ahmed Khan and lodged a strong protest over firing by its forces on Indian fishermen in which one of them died off the Gujarat coast.Khan,

PTI Updated on: October 14, 2013 22:24 IST


Five Indian boats were also taken away by them.

The incident took place around a fortnight after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistan counterpart Nawaz Sharif met in New York, with the Indian leader asserting that peace and tranquility on the border are essential for normalisation of relations.

After the firing incident, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi had demanded that the central government should take this issue seriously.
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