1200 Pakistani Pows are still in Indian Jails, 800 killed; Ansar Burney

[Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International]

1200 Pakistani Pows are still in Indian Jails, 800 killed; Ansar Burney


KARACHI:   The "Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International" has urged upon the 
Indian government for the immediate release of 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 campaigner 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 paralyzed.

"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.

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