Pakistan submits list of 319 Indian prisoners, 49 civilians included

Pakistan on Friday submitted a list of 319 Indian prisoners,
including 49 civil and 270 fishermen, locked in jails of the country, to the
Indian High Commission in Islamabad as part of a bilateral agreement, PTI
reported.

“The Government of Pakistan, today, shared with the Indian
High Commission in Islamabad a list of 319 Indian prisoners in Pakistan,
including 49 civilians and 270 fishermen prisoners,” PTI quoted Foreign Office
as saying in a statement. The central government wing further highlighted the process to be in tandem with the Consular Access Agreement between the two
countries.

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As per the FO, the Government of India reportedly has also
shared a reciprocal list of 340 Pakistani prisoners in India, including 263
civilians and 77 fishermen, with the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi.

Under the agreement, the two countries are required to
exchange lists of prisoners in each other’s custody two times a year, on
January 1 and July 1.

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Relationship between the two countries soured substantially
after an alleged strike by India into a terrorist camp deep inside the
Pakistani territory on February 26, 2019 in response to the Pulwama terror
attack by Jaish-e-Muhammad based in Pakistan in which 40 CRPF jawans were
killed.