The Ansar Burney Trust International said that the dead body of a Pakistani seaman expired in India will now reach back home via Sri Lanka as India refused to send body to Pakistan from her port.
Chairman of the Ansar Burney Trust International and former federal minister for human rights Ansar Burney said a Pakistani seaman Captain Jamshed Yar Khan was expired on July 2 on Shipboard on an Italian Ship ‘LDM Fortuna’ while anchored in Cochin Port, Kerala, in India.
Burney said after the death of Captain Jamshed Yar Khan the requisite NOC was issued by the Pakistan High Commission as required by Indian Kochi Police but for unknown reasons later Cochin Police refused to let the Ship Fortuna offload the dead body of Captain Jamshed Yar Khan.
Ansar Burney said after refusal from Kerala Indian Police to let the Ship Fortuna offload the dead body of Jamshed Yar Khan, the ship has taken the body to Colombo, Sri Lanka, to repatriate the dead body to Pakistan.
The Ansar Burney Trust International thanked the Pakistan’s ministry of foreign affairs for its kind cooperation in this regard and once again requested the foreign office and the Pakistan High Commission at Sri Lanka to expedite the matter on most urgent basis.
Burney said the body had reached Sri Lanka and after post-mortem the body was now at the Karapitiya Hospital Galle, Sri Lanka, to send the same to Pakistan for burial.
