Send Chishti to Pak; Zardari appeals to Singh

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has written a letter to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. In the letter President Zardari appealed to the Indian Prime Minister to send Dr. Khalil Chishti to Pakistan on humanitarian grounds.

According to the Presidential spokesman, the issue of Dr. Khalil Chishti was discussed during President Zardari’s meeting with Indian PM Singh.

The 80-year-old ailing Pakistani scientist Dr Mohammed Khalil Chishti, who was granted bail by Indian Supreme Court on Monday in a two-decade-old murder case, has been released from a prison in Ajmer.

Dr Chishti, who is serving life term after his conviction in January last year, was granted bail by the Supreme Court on humanitarian grounds.

President Zardari has also directed Interior Minister Rehman Malik to make all arrangements to bring Dr. Chishti to Pakistan.

According to an Interior Ministry statement, all expenditures of Chishti’s return to Pakistan will be paid by the government.