Some Pakistani prisoners in Indian jails don't want to return home

Ministry of External Affairs report finds 53 Pakistani nationals facing deportaion have filed for asylum in India.


Web Desk December 02, 2011
Some Pakistani prisoners in Indian jails don't want to return home

NEW DELHI: The Indian Ministry of External Affairs in submitting a detailed report on Pakistani prisoners in India has found that some of the prisoners do not wish to return, Times of India reproted on Saturday.

The report had been compiled and then submitted to the Indian Supreme Court which had asked the ministry to explain why deportation of Pakistanis was not expedited.

The report noted that 262 foreign prisoners were languishing in Indian prisons, 238 of them with deportation orders.

Of the prisoners, 53, Pakistani nationals including women and children, were demanding political asylum in India. They requested that they be treated as refugees after claiming they were "Mehdis".

The bench said, "In these matters, we have to be concerned about human rights. Technicalities must not come in the way of violation of these rights." However, it clarified, "We find most times the facts (given by petitioner) are unverified."

COMMENTS (15)

buttjee | 13 years ago | Reply

53 so called Pakistanis are the ones who have been lured for a very good future in India provided they cooperated with RAW to work against Pakistan.

hex | 13 years ago | Reply

@antanu: it's people like you who sit on wagah border one leg on each side,pretending to be an indian whenever it suits them "moral responsibility to help Indians who are targetted in fake terror cases?" ah,just like you given shelter to homeless boys all over the world, for starters OBL,Dawood,aljawahiri that's one heck of a list, keep them as long as you wanted after all those are the drivers of growth in Pakistan

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