The tragedy of a fisherman who died of COVID-19 while imprisoned in India, far from his family in Karachi, highlights the link between geopolitics and climate change – issues that will be deliberated at COP26 in Glasgow.
In November 2017, Amir Hamza was among the crew of a Pakistani fishing boat arrested by Indian security forces across the maritime border.
Fisherfolk along the Arabian Sea coast shared by nuclear-armed neighbours Pakistan and India know that they risk such arrests, as well as sea storms, if they stray across the invisible line. But it is a risk they take, driven by declining fish populations.
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