*ISLAMABAD – Pakistan has taken an important decision over release ofIndian national Hamid Nehal Ansari.*
*Hamid Ansari jail term will end on December 15, but he will not be able toleave for his country immediately as the Peshawar High Court has grantedthe government a month to **complete his repatriation process.*
A two-judge bench, comprising Justice Roohul Amin and Justice Qalandar AliKhan, on Thursday heard an appeal filed by Ansari through a senior lawyer.The petition said that the federal government hasn’t taken any steps forhis release. Ansari’s lawyer said that his client’s prison term will end onDecember 15 and he should be released on the morning of December 16.
Ansari was tried in a military court and was awarded three years’imprisonment on December 15, 2015. Ansari was arrested in Pakistan in 2012with a fake Pakistani identity card. He had crossed the border to meet agirl he met online.
On December 11, the bench had directed the interior ministry officials toappear before the court and explain in detail Ansari’s release and safereturn to India.