PESHAWAR: Ten foreign prisoners, most of them Arabs who fought against the US invasion of Afghanistan, will be released from Peshawar's central prison today (Thursday) and deported to their native countries, Javed Ibrahim Paracha, chairman of the World Prisoners' Relief Commission of Pakistan, told Daily Times on Wednesday. "I have got a no objection certificate from the Interior Ministry regarding the release of 10 foreign prisoners, mostly Arab mujahideen, from Peshawar's central prison," Paracha said. The names of those who will be released today are Esa Bu Madain, Saeed Majuri and Abu Safyan Lahzar of Algeria, Prince Behrain Salih of Tunis, Prince Halifa Bin Hassan of Maracas, Jamshid Abdul Latif and Qari Abdur Rehman of Tajikistan, Burhan Ahmad of Bangladesh and Zareef Latif and Shiekul Hadith Abdur Rehman of Uzbekistan. Paracha said that the foreigners had been arrested five years ago when they were crossing into Pakistan from Afghanistan after fighting the coalition forces.