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Paknews.com, Updated on Sept 12, 2001
12:39:06
1200 Pakistani POWs in Indian
Jails: Ansar Burney
ISLAMABAD, September 12 (PNS): The
"Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International" has urged
the Indian government to immediately release 1200 Pakistani
Prisoners of War lodged in different Indian Prisons since last
three decades.
In a SOS letter to the Indian Prime Minister, Atal Bihari
Vajpayee, the renowned human rights worker and Chairman of the
Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International, Ansar Burney urged the
Prime Minister of India to release such Prisoners of War for the
betterment of humanity in the South Asian region.
Letter said, according to information there were around
2000 such prisoners in India. But due to hard suffering and
severe torture, nearly 800 such unfortunate persons have died.
Though according to information, there are still 1200 POWs in
Indian Prisons.
The "Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International" has come
to know of this horrible fact as hundreds of families of such
Prisoners of War have contacted the Trust for their release from
Indian Prisons.
According to these unfortunate families (who have been
waiting for the release of their loved ones from Indian Prisons
for the last three decades) due to suffering third degree
torture, some of those prisoners lost their mental sense and have
allegedly been dumped in Mental Hospitals while some became
paralysed.
"When these families contacted me and sought our help, I
felt it my duty as a human rights campaigner to offer my
humanitarian services to search for those unfortunate
prisoners," letter said.
"Your Excellency is therefore requested to provide Ansar
Burney Welfare Trust International the details of such Pakistani
Prisoners of War in Indian prisons.
It is a very serious humanitarian issue and we would be very much
pleased and willing to help in the matter. We would make every
effort to search for such persons and get them released.
Please let us know exactly how many prisoners of war are in
Indian Prisons and please give us information on their current
whereabouts. Please also give us the names of all the unfortunate
prisoners who have survived in the last three decades so their
families can be traced and reunited with them," Ansar Burney
wrote in his letter.
Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International is also contacting the
Pakistani government in this regard, he said.
"Your immediate response will help our mission, so please
reply as soon as possible. This is a serious issue and if such
prisoners of war are in Indian prisons, as it seems to be
according to our information, then their suffering must be
stopped."
Ansar Burney requested to all other such families of the
Pakistani Prisoners of War in Indian Jails to contacted Ansar
Burney Welfare Trust International at 6 Hassan Manzil, Arambagh
Road, Karachi. End.