PESHAWAR: Seven foreigners arrested for alleged links with Al Qaeda were handed over to the Al Khidmat Foundation through the World PrisonersÂ’ Relief Commission of Pakistan (WPRCP) on Thursday. Peshawar Additional Sessions Judge Syed Ihtisham Ali ordered the foreigners be handed over to WPRCP Chairman Javed Ibrahim Paracha and Hazrat Aman of the Al Khidmat Foundation. The orders to shift the foreigners from Peshawar Central Jail were issued on humanitarian grounds, following the submission of surety bonds by both guarantors. The prisoners are Saeed Ahmad Majbour and Sufiyan Mahzar from Algeria, Naja Bin Salik from Tunisia, Jamshed Ahmad and Zarif Lateef from Tajikistan, Qari Abdur Rehman from Uzbekistan and Burhanuddin from Bangladesh. The Pakistani Foreign Office and the NWFP government have issued no objection certificates for the men to be shifted to the foundation. The WPRCP chairman and the seven foreigners held a press conference later and denied links with Al Qaeda.
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