- Thursday, April 25, 2024
By: Radhakrishna N S
PAKISTAN will release 360 Indian prisoners this month, the foreign office said on Friday (5).
“Pakistan has decided that 360 Indian prisoners – having breakup of 355 fishermen and five civilians, who have completed their term of sentence, will be released,” Mohammad Faisal, spokesman for the Pakistan Foreign Office, told reporters.
He said the prisoners would be released in four batches starting from April 8.
According to the lists exchanged by both sides in January, there are 347 Pakistani prisoners in Indian jails, 249 of whom are what the spokesman described as civilians and 98 fishermen.
There are 537 Indian prisoners in Pakistani jails, 483 of whom are fishermen.
“We hope that India will reciprocate this,” the foreign office spokesman said.
(Reuters)
