Relatives of six prisoners released from Bagram prison visited them on Monday at the Peshawar Central Jail.
Sources told Pakistan Today that the prisoners have been sent to Peshawar jail on November 16.
Two prisoners each are from Waziristan and Khyber Agency; and one each from Peshawar and Karachi. Names of the prisoners are Hamidullah Khan, Sabeel, Abdul Qadir, Muhammad Riaz, Abdul Karim and Falak Jan.
According to official sources, presently around 40 Pakistanis are imprisoned in Bagram Jail. Hundreds of others are languishing in Pull-e-Charkhi, Kandahar, Jalalabad, Mazar Sharif and other jails.
The Afghan government has freed Pakistani prisoners after a couple of years. Soon after the collapse of Taliban regime in November 2001, more than 3000 Pakistanis were captured by Afghan warlords and later handed them over to the Afghan government. However, most of these Pakistanis were freed in 2002 and 2003 on the orders of President Hamid Karzai. The Pakistanis were part of banned outfit Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM) squads, went across the border for shouldering the Taliban in war against US-led allies.
A large number of Pakistanis were caught and tried on terrorism charges. A large number of Pakistanis were also arrested on the charges of lacking valid travelling documents.
