400 Pakistanis still detained in Indian jails

KARACHI - About 400 innocent Pakistanis including children, elderly persons and women are still detained in various Indian prisons while the government of Pakistan is doing nothing to get them rid of the miserable condition.    

Talking to The Nation here on Friday, Sarim Burney, vice chairman of Ansar Burney Trust International, said that these people, belonging to nearly 100 families, were gone to India to visit their native villages. But these figures are beyond the actual statistics of the people detained in Indian prisons.

Sarim said that these Pakistani citizens were suffering in Indian jails without any criminal charges, however, Indian authorities had expressed their satisfaction over the innocency of these Pakistani citizens.

He said that government of Pakistan could easily get them released from the Indian jails but no Pakistani official had contacted with the Indian authorities in this regard.