Islamabad: A special aircraft of Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari has not left for India yet to bring back virologist Mohammed Khalil Chishti after 20 years.
Pakistan’s private news television quoting sources said that the aircraft had not left for India yet.
President Zardari’s special aircraft PAF 755 will leave for India to bring Dr Chishti back. It is expected that he will return to Pakistan by Tuesday evening.
President Zardari, during his meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi last month, had pleaded for clemency for Chishti, given his advanced age.
The Indian Supreme Court on May 10 permitted Chishti, 80, who was in a jail in Ajmer, to visit Pakistan during the pendency of his appeal against his conviction in a murder case and life imprisonment.
Chishti was sentenced to life imprisonment for the death of a person in a brawl with him when he was visiting Ajmer in April 1992. He was granted bail by the apex court on April 9 which asked him to make a separate plea for permission to visit Pakistan.
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