| Pakistan released on Wednesday 562 Afghan nationals, including children, who had been kept in jail for up to a year after violating immigration laws, officials said. AFP reported that the freed Afghan nationals were handed over to officials at the Afghan Consulate, which will make arrangements for their deportation, said Rauf Siddiqui, the Sindh interior minister. "We have freed 562 Afghan prisoners, who were arrested as illegal immigrants in the last one year, on humanitarian grounds," the sindh minister said. "It's a good omen that their release has come at a time when Afghan President Hamid Karzai is visiting Pakistan." |