Pak Prez to send special aircraft to bring back Chishti
May 15, 2012  15:13

President Asif Ali Zardari is sending a special aircraft to India today to bring back Pakistan's ailing virologist Khalil Chishti, who has been detained in Rajasthan for nearly two decades on charges of involvement in a murder.

 

The special jet will fly the 82-year-old Chishti from New Delhi to Pakistan, where he will received on his arrival by Interior Minister Rehman Malik.

 

Chishti is expected to be in Pakistan by this evening. On May 10, India's Supreme Court allowed Chishti to visit Pakistan before his appeal against his conviction in the murder case is taken up.

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