Staff Reporter
Persistent efforts of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government over last one and half year has helped release of over 8,600 Pakistani prisoners languishing in jails of different countries and rejoining their families.
Details shared by Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development on its social media pages on Wednesday stated that the United Arab Emirates released some 3,023 Pakistanis and topped among the countries that freed Pakistani prisoners during the PTI government’s tenure.
Followed by the UAE, Saudi Arabia released some 2,020 Pakistani prisoners while 1,500 freed from Malaysia, 668 from Iraq, 106 from Qatar and multitude of prisoners from other countries.
The government had also arranged two special chartered flights for repatriating a large number of Pakistanis who availed an amnesty scheme in Malaysia against expiry of their travel documents. It was the first government in the history of the country that had made concentrated efforts for the release of overseas Pakistanis from foreign jails, an official source in the Overseas Ministry said informed.
