ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are signing an accord to swap prisoners. For this purpose, Saudi cabinet has approved the draft of an agreement between the two brotherly nations to exchange prisoners.
The agreement calls for exchanging convicted prisoners between the two countries, Saudi official news agency reported today.
Meanwhile, Saudi cabinet also gave approval for the drafts for the agreements for bilateral cooperation against crimes and a document to work out a Memorandum of Understanding with Pakistan on illegal anti-human trafficking and drugs.
Saudi King Salman bin Abdul Aziz chaired the meeting of Saudi cabinet.
In May 2021, in an impressive feat of diplomacy, Prime Minister Imran Khan returned from a trip to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with a signed Prisoner Transfer Agreement.
A PTA is a bilateral contract between states which facilitates the transfer of prisoners back to their country of origin. In July and August of 2021, we saw two tranches of Pakistanis return home from the Kingdom.
