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Indian
prisoner returns from Pakistan after 27 years
Thursday April 07, 2011 02:14:02 PM,
IANS
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Attari
(Punjab): Gopal
Dass, an Indian prisoner who had been in a Pakistani jail for 27
years, returned home Thursday afternoon.
Dass, 50, who had been arrested in Pakistan in 1984 and had spent
the long years since in a Lahore jail, waved to waiting family
members as he crossed the iron border gates at this road border
checkpost, about 30 km from Amritsar.
Addressing reporters, he criticised the government for not doing
enough for Indian prisoners jailed in Pakistan.
Authorities in Pakistan had earlier Thursday released him from
Lahore's Central Jail where he was serving his term on charges of
spying.
He was set to be released by the end of this year under the law.
However, on March 27, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari announced
his release on humanitarian grounds - just ahead of Pakistan Prime
Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's visit to Mohali, near Chandigarh, to
watch the March 30 India-Pakistan World Cup semifinal on an
invitation from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
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