ISLAMABAD: PM Imran Khan has taken to the Twitter to proclaim: “On my instructions, funds were arranged & a special flight brought back sixty three prisoners from KSA today, so they could be back with their families for Eid. Helping Pakistanis in prisons abroad & assisting in their return to Pakistan is my govt’s commitment to our people.”
The prisoners were received here at the Airport by the MD of OPF along with senior officials of Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development. It is pertinent to mention here that on orders of its King Salman Bin Abdulaziz-Al-Saud, the Saudi officials had waived off the prison sentence of these 63 Pakistanis who were languishing in KSA prisons for minor cases.
It is pertinent to mention here that recently Federal Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has proclaimed that thanks to the agreement inked during PM Imran Khan’s visit to KSA one thousand one hundred Pakistani nationals incarcerated in the Saudi jails would be pardoned (though most they had already served their sentences) and sent back to their homeland. He made it clear that those thirty Pakistanis condemned to death could not be brought back. Similarly, cases those who had been convicted for heinous crimes, would be handled separately.
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