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Islamabad: The Pakistan-India Judicial Committee has recommended that prisoners who have completed their terms and whose nationality has been confirmed by their respective High Commissions be immediately released.
The four members of the Indian chapter of the eight-member committee said on Saturday the verification process for those prisoners for whom it had not been completed should be done in a month and, in any case, before the committee's next meeting in India.
A joint statement issued by the Foreign Office following the visit of the committee to jails in Lahore, Karachi and Rawalpindi, said that the lists of prisoners exchanged by the two governments on March 31 were incomplete.
The committee, therefore, expected that the procedure for preparing and updating the lists would be streamlined and the next lists to be exchanged on July 1 would be error- free, The News reported on Sunday.
The lists should contain information about the date of arrest, details of sentence, charges under which the prisoner was sentenced and the expected date of release, the committee added.
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