29 Bangladeshis released from Pakistan prisons returning home
Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. Star file photo
UNB, Dhaka
UNB, Dhaka
Twenty-nine Bangladeshi nationals, who were released from Malir and Karachi jails of Pakistan, are set to return to the country today.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a press release in this regard.
Eight more Bangladeshis are supposed to return to the country tomorrow after serving their jail terms at Malir prison in Pakistan s Sindh province. The eight expatriate workers legally employed on an Omani fishing boat were held by Pakistani coast guard for entering the country s water territory in the Arab sea. They will return to Bangladesh with the funding of foreign ministry, UNB said quoting the press release.