Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday approved the release of four Pakistani prisoners as a goodwill gesture ahead of his visit to Islamabad.
The four Pakistani prisoners, lodged in a Gujarat jail, will be repatriated from the Attari border on June 30, 2010 and handed over to Pakistan Rangers.
Chidambaram will fly to Islamabad on Friday to attend the SAARC interior ministers' conference apart from holding a bilateral meeting with his Pakistan counterpart Rehman Malik
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