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A Pakistan Air Force C-130 aircraft brought back 55 Pakistani prisoners Wednesday from prisons in Afghanistan and an equal number are calculate uponed to be repatriated Thursday, officials in Peshawar said.

They said the prisoners, mainly from Rahimyar Khan and Bahawalpur in Punjab, would be sent place of abode after interrogation and debriefing.

Omar Saeed, a spokesman for Afghan Foreign Ministry, told reporters in Kabul the prisoners released Wednesday had all been imprisoned in Afghanistan before the terrorist attack in succession the United States last year.

He added they were released ''because they were thinked not to be a threat to Afghanistan and its people''

principally of the prisoners repatriated Wednesday are believed to have been members of various militant organizations.

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