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India returns bodies of two Pakistani prisoners
Pakistan expressed "deep concern" over the treatment of Pakistani prisoners in Indian jails after the bodies of a man and a woman were handed over at the border on Friday.
- Agencies
- Published: 17:15 June 13, 2008
Islamabad: Pakistan expressed "deep concern" over the treatment of Pakistani prisoners in Indian jails after the bodies of a man and a woman were handed over at the border on Friday.
"We have called upon the Indian authorities to thoroughly investigate the causes leading to the deaths of these unfortunate Pakistani prisoners," a foreign office spokesman said.
Relatives waited at the Wagha border on the outskirts of Lahore to receive the bodies of Rashida Bibi, 60, and Abdul Alim, a man in his mid-twenties.
Alim was arrested in 2001 while crossing into India, and Bibi was taken into custody upon her arrival in India in 2006, relatives said.
They said they found no signs of physical abuse on the bodies, but they would request autopsies.
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