LAHORE – Tere are 11,803 prisoners in foreign jails out of a total of8,820,518 overseas Pakistanis living in different countries.
Interior Ministry has submitted report in the Lahore High Court.
It stated that the statistics of the overseas Pakistanis jailed abroad hadbeen obtained from the ministry of foreign affairs in light of a directionissued by the court.
It said the ministry of interior has also moved a summary to financedivision for a supplementary grant of $35,000 to make arrangements forrepatriation of Pakistani citizens imprisoned abroad. However, it statedthat the process required sufficient time for completion as departments ofdifferent countries involve in it.
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The interior ministry sought a considerable time from the court to processthe matter with relevant countries through ministry of the foreign affairs.The ministry further revealed that in light of Supreme Court’s directionprocessing of “Transfer of Offenders” agreement with 20 countries has beeninitiated.
The countries include Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, China, Russia, Qatar,Bahrain, Malaysia, Ireland, Yemen, Afghanistan, Maldives, Korea, Jordan,Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Cyprus, Seychelles, Kirghizstan and Nigeria.