ISLAMABAD : The Chairman of Ansar Burney Trust International, Ansar
Burney has strongly condemned the attitude of Pakistan’s Ministry of
Interior for not signing the agreement with United Arab Emirates and
other Arab and Middle Eastern countries allowing prisoners transfer
between both the countries.
Ansar Burney said that during his
tenure as federal minister for human rights, on humanitarian grounds he
took up the matter with some of the Arab and ME countries and reportedly
the United Arab Emirates has now very much agreed to sign the agreement
in the greater interest of human rights, but the matter is since long
time pending in Pakistan’s Ministry of Interior at Islamabad for unknown
reasons.
He said that since the agreement is ready and is only
awaiting signature of the Interior Ministry at Islamabad and once the
agreement signed, Pakistani prisoners in the UAE Jails may opt to
complete their remaining prison sentence back home in Pakistan, if they
wish to do so and UAE national prisoners if any in Pakistani Jails may
opt to be in UAE prisons.
International Ambassador for Peace and
human rights, Ansar Burney appreciated the interest of UAE Minister for
Interior Lt. General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan in human rights
matter and demanded with Pakistan Interior Minister not to make further
delay in signing such an agreement between the two brotherly countries
in the greater interest of human dignity and poor families of such
prisoners in Pakistan. Online
