The Pakistan Maritime Security Agency arrested 29 Indian fishermen for crossing into Pakistan's territorial waters, Radio Pak reported on Thursday.

According to the state-run broadcasting service, a spokesperson for the Pakistan Maritime Security Agency said the agency had also confiscated five boats belonging to the fishermen.

The Indian fishermen were handed over to police, a Docks police official told Dawn.

However, Indian media reported that a spokesman for India's National Fishworkers' Forum had said that 23 fisherman had been arrested by Pakistan along with their four boats near the coast of Gujrat.

The International Maritime Border Line Forum secretary Manish Lodhari told the Press Trust of India that: "We have learnt that at least 23 fishermen on four boats were apprehended by the PMSA near Jakhau and they were being taken to Karachi,"

Every year, dozens of Indian and Pakistani fishermen are picked up in the Arabian Sea after straying across maritime borders.