LAHORE – A Pakistani citizen who was imprisoned in India back in 2005 was released on Thursday after 12 years.
The Pakistani, Khalid Parvez, had traveled to India in 2005 to watch a cricket match but was later arrested from Gurdaspur in 2006 on charges of illegally overstaying in the country.
The 50-year-old was handed over to Pakistani security officials at the Wagah Border in Lahore, from where he left for his native city Narowal.
Earlier this month, the Indian government repatriated two Pakistani sisters after they spent 11 years in an Indian prison. One of the sisters’ daughter, who was born in the jail, was also with them.
The two sisters, Fatima and Mumtaz, and their mother Rasheedan Bibi went to India via Samjhota Express in 2006, where they were arrested on charges of smuggling drugs.
The sisters and their mother, residents of Gujranwala in Pakistan, were sent to Amritsar prison, where the latter died after two years.
