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US refuses to repatriate 32 Pakistanis detained at Bagram airbase | |
The United States has refused to repatriate 32 Pakistanis detained at Bagram Airbase
in Afghanistan, a director in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has said.
MFA Director Jalil Khattak informed the court that the Ministry had written a
letter to the U.S. State Department for the release of the detainees but U.S.
government had declined the same, adding that diplomatic efforts were underway
for their repatriation, reports The Nation. "It is our duty to repatriate our
citizens and provide them with their identification. We should work day and night
to bring our people home. Telephones, letters and other such correspondence are
not enough. This is the least we can do for our citizens languishing in jails
abroad," Justice Khalid Mahmood Khan said. Representing petitioner Barrister Sarah
Belal pointed out that some other developing countries had been much more aggressive
in retrieving their citizens from indefinite detention at Bagram. She said the
German government took only three months to repatriate its citizens from Bagram
and yet Pakistanis had been languishing there for several years.
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