Via PTI
NEW DELHI: India on Saturday repatriated 3 Pakistani prisoners during the Attari-Wagah border transit level once they finished their prison phrases.
The prisoners are Sameera Abdul Rehman, Murtaza Asghar Ali and Ahmed Raja, consistent with the Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA).
“3 Pakistani prisoners, who had finished their sentences, had been repatriated to Pakistan by way of the Attari-Wagah border on March 26,” the MEA mentioned. It mentioned Sameera Abdul Rehman used to be accompanied by way of her four-year-old woman kid Sana Fatima.
The MEA additionally mentioned India attaches easiest significance to addressing all humanitarian issues, together with early unencumber and repatriation of all Indian prisoners and fishermen from Pakistan.
“The federal government’s chronic efforts have succeeded in unencumber and repatriation of 20 Indian fishermen and one civilian prisoner from Pakistan’s custody in 2022, up to now,” the MEA mentioned in a commentary.
An professional on the Attari border mentioned that during 2017 the Pakistani girl used to be arrested along side her husband Mohammad Shihab of Palakkad in Kerala.
She had met him in Qatar. Shihab introduced her to India with out a visa in September 2016 by way of the Nepal border. She used to be arrested in Might 2017 and used to be due to this fact sentenced to three-year imprisonment. She used to be lodged in a Bangalore prison.
The professional mentioned her husband used to be launched from prison on bail and thereafter he went lacking. Ahead of crossing over to Pakistan, Sameera mentioned, “I’m extraordinarily glad as I’m after all going again to Pakistan along side my daughter born in India…the Indian government…handled me and my daughter neatly in prison.” “I’m additionally grateful to Indian officers and the House Ministry which helped me tremendously to acquire all related trip paperwork to pass over to Pakistan with my daughter,” she mentioned.