PESHAWAR: Peshawar High Court (PHC) Chief Justice Tariq Pervez Khan on Tuesday released an Uzbek couple from the city's central prison. Intelligence agencies had arrested the couple a few years ago for suspected links with Al Qaeda. Javed Ibrahim Paracha, chairman of the World Prisoner's Relief Commission of Pakistan, said in a press statement that NWFP acting Home Secretary Manzoor Ahmad had written a letter to Peshawar Additional Sessions Judge Syed Ihtisham Ali, objecting to the "terrorist couple's easy release". Paracha said that the additional sessions judge sent the letter to the PHC chief justice. The chief justice visited the prison along with Judicial Magistrate Malik Amjad Rahim. The magistrate imposed a Rs 1,000 fine on the accused - Sheikhul Hadith Maulana Abdur Rahim and his wife Hafiza Bibi - under Section 14 of the Foreigners Act and handed them to police for deportation.