Corruption sabotages Pakistan prisoner exchange deals
Pakistan says it has suspended all its bilateral prisoner exchange agreements with “various countries,” after it was revealed that corrupt officials had sprung inmates extradited to the country.
The development came after a probe into a complaint from the UK showed that three inmates, who had been sent back from Britain in 2010, had been released within two months.
“We have suspended implementation of all prisoner exchange agreements with various countries,” Pakistani Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan told a parliamentary committee on Monday.
He said the agreements will not be restored “till formulation of a transparent policy.”
“We will show the world that Pakistan is a responsible country and we will not spare anybody involved in corruption,” he added.
The prisoners had been supposed to serve jail terms ranging from 18 to 25 years for drug trafficking and murder.
The Pakistani minister said it had been revealed that two prisoners were set free in two months and the third one spent just one day in jail.
He said one of the convicts had fled to Dubai while another went to Malaysia and from there to Ecuador, but both had since been arrested and were being repatriated to Pakistan. The third had been arrested in Pakistan.
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