India:-”Release the 169 prisoners”

169 Pakistani prisoners languishing in Indian jails

Thursday, April 24, 2008, By Our CorrespondentLAHORE
THE former Human Rights Minister Ansar Burney has released names of 169 Pakistani including 29 females and 19 demented prisoners languishing in the Indian jails.

While talking to this scribe, Burney said that all the prisoners were believed to be Pakistani citizens and they were detained in the various prisons across India while some of them were being kept into custody despite completion of their sentences even over a decade ago.

He said that the Indian authorities had agreed to release all these Pakistani prisoners after the recent improvement of relations between the two countries. He said that list of names of these prisoners had been handed over to him by the Indian government during his recent visit to India. He said that he would try his level best to save life of the Indian prisoner, Sarabjit Singh, as he had served his jail term since 1991 when he was first arrested by the Pakistani government. Burney said that the Indian government had no reservations regarding release of many of these prisoners on humanitarian grounds.

Rashida BiBi w/o Muhammad Siddique, Fatima BiBi d/o Muhammad Siddique, Nasreen Akhtar w/o Muhammad Afzal, Shukla Ghosh d/o Kiran Mohan Ghosh, Farzana Shaheen w/o Idris, Seema w/o Ahmed, Ruby d/o Abdul Malik, Noreen Shazadi w/o Sayed Moenuddin, Kulsoom Kiran w/o Imran Saeed, Rozina Faheem w/o Mohammad Faheem Jaffer, Syed Rakshanda Asim w/o Asim Ilyas, Safia w/o Mohammad Shafi, Samira Waseem w/o Mohammad Waseem, Shabana Gohar d/o Bashir Ahmad, Sajida Waheed w/o Abdul Waheed, Anisa d/o Abdul Zabbar, Ashraf un Nisa d/o Muhammad Nabi, Shaista Gohar w/o Mohammad Ashfaq, Samreen Shahzadi w/o Mohammad Ikhlaq, Gulnaz w/o Mohammad Mustakeen, Bushra Mansoor w/o Mansoor Khan, Qamar Parveen w/o Pervaz Ahmed, Maqsooda Bibi w/o Abdul Rashid, Zakia Imran w/o Imran Pasha d/o Abdul Rashid, Mesbah d/o Mohammad Nabi, Kazim Begum w/o Mohammad Nabi, Zile Gohar d/o Mohammad Shafi, Farah Naz Gohar d/o Asim Ilyas, Sana Riaz d/o Mohammad Faheed Jaffar are the names of female prisoners.

Abdul Gafoor Abdul Shakur Burmi, Rashid Ullah Safid Alam Bengali, Mohmad Faiyaz Noor Mohmad Bengali, Ahmed Mohmad Zafar Burmi, Mohmad Hussain Abu Shahid Burmi, Sahadat Ali Sheikh Ahmed Bengali, Mohmad Sidique s/o Fakir Mamad Katiyar, Razzak s/o Jusab Katiyar, Mohmad Ulhar s/o Mohmad Katiyar, Mohmad Sidique s/o Amad Katiyar, Mohmad Amin s/o Mohmad Umar Katiyar, Mohmad Hanif s/o Amad Katiyar, Mahmad Ismail s/o Mahmad Ibrahim Katiyar, Mahmad Hasan s/o Umar Katiyar are sent to jail in various jails of Gujrat.

Muhammad Anwar s/o Nawab Din, Muhammad Shehzad Muhammad Sajjad s/o Muhammad Yousuf, Moosa Kazim s/o Mukhtar Ahmad, Faisal Abbasi s/o Abdul Qayyum, Raheel Ahmed Hashmi s/o Mushtaq Ahmad, Zaffar-ul-Haq Zaffar s/o Habib-ur-Rehman are being taken into custody by the Indian police in Jammu and Kashmir.

M Hanif s/o Taj Din, Kamran Gauhar s/o Muhammad Shafi, Abdul Razzak s/o Rustam Ali, Haji Gul s/o Buzurgh Khan, Iftikhar Ali s/o Late Qadir Bakhsh, Saleem Ijaz s/o Muhammad Bashir, Muhammad Javed s/o Muhammad Shafi are arrested by the Indian police in New Delhi.

All these prisoners were held by the Indian police in jails of Punjab state. The names of these prisoners are Baflu Batru s/o Bakhu, Muhammad Zahid s/o Niaz Muhammad, Muhammad Idrees Iqbal s/o Karim Baksh Bashir Ahmad, Chaudhry Muhammad Rafique s/o Hafiz Abdul Hameed, Muhammad Zaheer s/o Muhammad Nazir, Muhammad Rashid s/o Muhammad Yasin, Abdul Sharif s/o Gulam Ahmed, Altaf-ur-Rehman s/o Mohammad Adres, Mohammad Aslam Khan s/o Abdul Rehman, Akbar Ali s/o Rehmat Ali, Gulzar Ahmed s/o Jharu Kan, Mohammad Bilal s/o Rehmat Ali, Nadeem Sarvar s/o Akram, Goonga Bola s/o Not known, Iqbal Sidique s/o Mohammad Sidique, Mukhtar Ahmed s/o Khushi Mohammad Ahmed, Musa Kazim s/o Hamid Khan, Harun Rashid s/o Sikandarpal, Shah Nawaz s/o Mohammad Sadique, Mohammad Asgar s/o Mohammad Ali, Shingar Ali s/o Baba Hussain Ali, Jasraula s/o Guffar, Naqeeb-ur-Rehman s/o Safan Izat, Mohammad Muslin s/o Wahid Baksh, Afjal s/o Bashir Mistry, Javed Khan s/o Blund Shah, Abi Salum s/o Mukhtar Masih, Khadim s/o Salaudin alias Karim, Rameej Raja Abad s/o Abud Shah alias Nur Hussain, Faqir Hussain s/o Rushabdin Ghulam Mohammad, Mohammad Aurangzeb s/o Mahammad Aurangzeb, Akbar Ali s/o Nawab Ali, Liakat Ali s/o Jalaldin, Mohammad Abbas s/o Suleman Khan, Aasak Achiove s/o Asmat Ullah, Mohammad Azmal s/o Taj Gull, Sakeel s/o Babu Khan, Mohammad Niam s/o Mohammad Sarvar Khan, Goonga Bola s/o Not known, Mohammad Irfan s/o Zaheer Khan, Asif s/o Mohammad Asif, Batru / Bafru s/o Bakhu, Ahmed s/o Sadik, Faisal Naam s/o Khadam, Noosar Ullah s/o Dunullah Benjoo, Zahir Abbas s/o Mohammad Safdar, Gulzar s/o Malkaman, Maqbool Hussain s/o Ayat Ullah, Mohammad Imran s/o Mohammad Anwar, Malang Faqir s/o Baba Noori Lal, Fazal Amin s/o Sarvar Amin, Azmat s/o Mohammad Sareef, Momin Khan s/o Mohammad Aziz, Mohammad Sadiq s/o Mohammad Abbas, Nadim Sarwar s/o Akras, Murid Faqir s/o Ghulam Mohammad, Kabal Shah s/o Habib Shah, Khan Badhshah s/o Jamal Khan, Moosa Kasim s/o Hammed Khan, Juber s/o Kamal, Mohammad Johar s/o Mohammad Sharil, Tooti Shah s/o Noor Mohammad, Ali Mohammad s/o Noor Mohammad, Mohammad Sharif s/o Gul Agha, Mansoor Ahmed s/o Ramjit, Munir Ahmed s/o Gulam Ahmed, Haroon Rashid s/o Sikander Shah.

Rajistan: Murad ali Mithoo s/o Muhammad Islam, Uzair s/o Muhammad aziz, Buland Khan s/o Atta Khan, Muhammad Akram s/o Muhammad Amim, Muhammad Arshad s/o Muhammad Akram, Muhammad Shahid s/o Aziz-ur-Rehman.

There was only one prisoner, Muhammad Saleem s/o Nazar Muhammad, who was taken into custody by the Indian police in Uttar Pradesh.

There were also many Pakistani prisoners who were languishing in various Indian jails. The names of these prisoners are Sarfaraz Hussain s/o Mumtaz Hussain, Shahzad Mukhtar s/o Mohammad Mukhtar, Mohammad Shafi s/o Abdul Rashid, Abdul Rashid s/o Haji Fazal Karim, Mohammad Sajjad Babar s/o Khushi Mohammad, Mohammad Waseem s/o Abdul Rashid, Mohammad Maqsood s/o Ghulam Rasool, Zaheeruddin Bukhari s/o Ghulam Moinuddin, Abdul Waheed s/o Inayat Ali, Javaid Iqbal s/o Dost Mohammad, Farooq Azam s/o Hafiz Khadim, Ayub Gohar s/o Bashir Ahmad, Aurangzeb s/o Qamaruddin, Mohammad Muzammil s/o Muhammad Nabi, Imran Pasha s/o Pasha Khan, Usman Rashid s/o Abdul Rashid, Muhammad Zafar Iqbal s/o Ali Ahmed, Mohammad Irshad s/o Ghulam Rasool, Iqbal Shahi s/o Ahmed Manzoor, Irshad Ali s/o Kamaluddin, Mohammad Khalid s/o Allah Ditta, Akhtar Ali s/o Mustafa Ali, Mohammad Faheem Jaffar s/o Jaffar Hussain, Mansoor Khan s/o Mohammad Masood, Muhammad Fiaz s/o Mushtaq Ahmed, Sayeed Moinuddin s/o Sayeed Ahmed, Syed Muhammad Allauddin s/o Syed Mohammad Salahuddin, Syed Mohammad Furqanuddin s/o Syed Mohammad Salahuddin, Mohammad Ashfaq s/o Mohammad Siddiq, Asim Ilyas s/o Mohammad Ilyas, Mohammad Ikhlaq s/o Fateh Mohammad, Imran Saeed s/o Mohammad Saeed Akhtar, Mohammad Yasir s/o Mohammad Hanif, Tahir Rashid s/o Abdul Rashid, Sabir Ali s/o Mohammad Nabi, Tanvir Yunus s/o Muhammad Khalid, Waqas Ahmed Gohar s/o Mohammad Ashfaq, Hassan Al Gohar s/o Imran Pasha, Asad Gohar s/o Mohammad Shafi, Shehzaib Gohar s/o Mohammad Mustakeem.