ISLAMABAD: Holding the Ministry of Interior responsible for Pakistani prisoners’ death in jails of foreign countries, the Supreme Court on Monday took it to task over the slow progress in the matter pertaining to repatriation of Pakistanis languishing in foreign jails. “What needed to be done about Pakistanis languishing in foreign jails? Earlier, the bench took strong exception to the absence of the interior secretary and directed him to turn up immediately. “We give you a contempt of court notice,” Justice Saeed observed, addressing the interior secretary after he showed up in the court. “We also summon [Minister of State for Interior] Shehryar Afridi.”He asked the secretary to look for other jobs.

Source: Pakistan Today March 04, 2019 20:15 UTC