Pakistani schoolboys arrested over Uri attack to return today

Author: Web Desk

LAHORE: Two Pakistani schoolboys, who were arrested for their alleged involvement in Uri attack, have been transferred to the Amritsar Attari border. Sources privy to the development informed media that the two will be received by officials of the Pakistan High Commission today.

According to media reports, after completion of immigration procedure, the boys, named Faisal Hussain Awan and Ahsan Khursheed, will return to Pakistan via the Wagah Border. There they will be handed over to Pakistan Rangers by Pakistan High Commission officials.

Families of both boys have reached the Wagah Border. Awan and Khursheed, who lived in a village in Azad Kashmir, located an hour away from the Line of Control, were picked by the Indian army after they had strayed across the border on September 21 last year.

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