Released Mirza Tahir leaves for UK

ISLAMABAD—Mirza Tahir Hussain, a British citizen, on death row in Pakistan for a murder was released on Friday morning from Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi and sent to UK via a special plane.
President Pervez Musharraf on Thursday had commuted the death sentence on Mirza Tahir Hussain, 36, of Leeds, West Yorks to a life sentence. According to interior ministry sources, the British High Commission in Islamabad and his family had been apprised of the special orders of the president. While the Interior Ministry had sent a notification to the Home Secretary Punjab in this respect, which scrutinized the entire prison record of Mirza Tahir and found that the convict had spent double of his life imprisonment. Upon which IG Jail ordered the Adiala Jail authorities to release Mirza Tahir Hussain. Upon receiving the orders the Adiala Jail authorities released Mirza Tahir to British High Commission authorities. Mirza Tahir was brought to Islamabad International Airport directly from the prison from where he was sent to UK abroad a special plane.—Agencies