{"id":311049,"date":"2019-04-05T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311049"},"modified":"2019-04-06T02:59:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T02:59:58","slug":"pakistan-decides-to-release-360-indian-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pakistan-decides-to-release-360-indian-prisoners\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan decides to release 360 Indian prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-309914 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/attari-wagah-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/attari-wagah-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/attari-wagah.jpg 549w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pakistan on Friday announced that it will release 360 Indian prisoners over the month of April in four phases, according to a media report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Foreign Office spokesperson Dr Mohammad Faisal said that in the first phase on April 8, 100 prisoners will be released. In the second phase on April 15, another 100 will be released. It will be followed by the release of additional one hundred prisoners on April 22 and in the fourth and last phase on April 29, the remaining 60 prisoners will be released.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The spokesperson while addressing the weekly news briefing in Islamabad said currently there are 347 Pakistani prisoners in India and 537 Indian prisoners in Pakistan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pakistan will be releasing 360 Indian prisoners, of which 355 are fishermen and 5 are civilians, he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dr Faisal said, \u201cIt is hoped that India will respond positively to this decision by Pakistan.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan on Friday announced that it will release 360 Indian prisoners over the month of April in four phases, according to a media report. Foreign Office spokesperson Dr Mohammad Faisal said that in the first phase on April 8, 100 prisoners will be released. In the second phase on April 15, another 100 will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":309914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,53],"tags":[574,11229],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311049"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311053,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311049\/revisions\/311053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}