[Reader-list] Pakistan releases 442 Indian fishermen;

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From: Prem Dangal <anpfa at anpfa.org.np>

Congratulations !

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 8:51 AM, <karkisharmila at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all
> It is a excellent news for all of us and would like to congratulation to
> all those who have done lots efforts special thanks to PILER teams.
> With solidarity of happiness
>
> On 8/29/10, Farooq Tariq <farooqtariq at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> This is great news and we are all happy that those Indian prisoners who
>> had completed their sentences would be released in next few days. Pakistan
>> Fisherfolk Forum and PILER have taken a timely initiative and it has brought
>> a happy news in many families accross both sides. Also I congratulate Iqbal
>> Haider for representing the Indian prisoners in Supreme Court of Pakistan.
>> Supreme Court has acted correctly to address this question and ordered the
>> government to release all those without delay.
>>
>> Farooq Tariq
>> spokesperson
>> Labour Party Pakistan
>> 40-Abbot Road Lahore, Pakistan
>> Tel: 92 42 6315162 Fax: 92 42 6271149 Mobile: 92 300 8411945
>>
>> labour_party at yahoo.com www.laborpakistan.org www.jeddojuhd.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> From: shuja98 at yahoo.com
>>
>>   Dear All,
>> I am glad to share this good news that Pakistani authorities today ordered
>> release of 442 Indian fishermen, who would be released from different jails
>> in batches. First batch to leave for India from Karachi on Monday.
>> It is a great success peace activists of both the countries.
>> Congratulations.
>> Read the press release below.
>>
>> Shujauddin Qureshi
>> Senior Research Associate
>> Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER),
>> Gulshan-e-Maymar, Karachi-75340
>> Ph: +(92-21) 36351145-7
>> Fax: +(92-21) 36350345
>> Cell: +(92)300-3929788
>> URL: www.piler.org.pk
>>
>> PRESS RELEASE
>>
>> Pakistan releases 442 Indian fishermen; first batch of 100 Indians to
>> leave for Wagah on Monday
>>
>> KARACHI, August 28: Sindh provincial government’s Home Department on
>> Saturday issued orders for release and repatriation of 442 Indian Fisherman,
>> including two minors, to their country. They have been under detention in
>> four Jails of the province at District Jail Malir, Karachi Nara Jail
>> Hyderabad, District Jail Badin and District Jail Naushehro Feroz.
>>
>> The provincial Home department’s notification No. SO(PPT)HD/01-09/09,
>> dated 28th August 2010, has ordered release and repatriation of these Indian
>> Fisherman’s in batches from the place and on the dates as specified below:-
>>
>> Sr. No
>>
>> Number of Indian Fisherman to be repatriated from District Jail Malir
>> Karachi via Wagah Border
>>
>> Date of Departure / Release from Jail
>>
>> Date and time of repatriation at Wagah Border
>>
>> 01.
>>
>> 100 (Including two juveniles from Y.O.I.S, Karachi)
>>
>> 30-08-2010 about 8:00 AM
>>
>> 31-08-2010 at 10:00 AM
>>
>> 02.
>>
>> 100
>>
>> 02-09-2010 about 8:00 AM
>>
>> 03-09-2010 at 10:00 AM
>>
>> 03.
>>
>> 101
>>
>> 04-09-2010 about 8:00 AM
>>
>> 05-09-2010 at 10:00 AM
>>
>> 04.
>>
>> 141
>>
>> 06-09-2010 about 8:00 AM
>>
>> 07-09-2010 at 10:00 AM
>>
>> A copy of the notification was received by former Attorney General and
>> Federal Minister for Human Rights, Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs,
>> Senator (R) Iqbal Haider and jail authorities have also confirmed.
>>
>> After hearing of the Constitution Petition No.48 of 2010 which was filed
>> in the Supreme Court by Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) and Pakistan
>> Institute Labour Education and Research (PILER), to challenge the continuing
>> detention as well as arrest, prosecution, conviction of 582 Indian Fisherman
>> in various Jails of Sindh. Sayed Iqbal Haider, senior advocate of the
>> Supreme Court had been pursuing and arguing this Petition in the Supreme
>> Court.
>>
>>  Earlier on 12th August 2010, the Supreme Court of Pakistan had issued
>> notices of the said Petition to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of
>> Interior, Government of Pakistan as well as Home Department, Government of
>> Sindh, and had required them to disclosed under what legal provision or
>> lawful Authority, the 582 Indian Fisherman, named in the Constitution
>> Petition, were arrested, prosecuted, convicted and later detained after
>> completion of their sentences.
>>
>> On the last date of hearing i.e 26th August 2010, the Supreme Court was
>> informed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Pakistan that
>> they it has already informed the Ministry of Interior of Pakistan to release
>> the detained 456 Indian Fisherman, who have completed their sentences and
>> their nationality has been confirmed by the Indian high commission. The
>> Supreme Court had ordered repeat of the notice to the Ministry of Interior
>> as to why these detained Indian fisherman are not being released and
>> repatriated to India. The next date of hearing of this Petition in the
>> Supreme Court is 14th September 2010, soon after the Eid-ul-Fitr.
>>
>> It is in the aforesaid back ground of the said Petition and Orders of the
>> Supreme Court that the Government of Sindh has today issued the aforesaid
>> Notification for release of at least 442 detained Indian Fishermen, in the
>> batches and on the dates as specified above.
>>
>> The release and repatriation of the first batch of the detained Indian
>> Fisherman will commence from 30th August 2010 Malir Jail at about 8:00 AM,
>> for transfer to Wagah border in Lahore. Mr Justice Nasir Aslam Zahid, Member
>> of the Pak-India Joint Judicial Commission, Senator (R) Iqbal Haider, Senior
>> Advocate of the Petitioners, as well as Chairman Pakistan Fisherfolk
>> Mohammad Ali Shah and PILER team will bid farewell to the detained Indian
>> Fisherman to be released on this occasion, at the Malir Prison on Monday at
>> 8:00 AM.
>>
>> Meanwhile, the Executive Director of PILER Karamat Ali and PFF Chairman
>> Mohammad Ali Shah has congratulated all the released Indian fishermen and
>> peace activists of both India and Pakistan on this milestone success and
>> hoped that India would reciprocate this gesture of goodwill by releasing
>> over 150 Pakistani fishermen.
>>
>> They also reiterated their demand that arrest of the fishermen by both
>> Indian and Pakistani maritime security agencies and Navies near Sir Creek in
>> must be stopped forthwith and a mechanism should be evolved so that in case
>> of violation of un-demarcated borders in Arabian sea by fishermen, they
>> should be released after giving them warnings.
>>
>> Ends
>>
>>
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