Ninety one Indian personnel of the armed foces(according to the latest Indian government averment)have been languishing in Pakistani jails for over thirty seven years. At least one and may be two have been behind Pakistani prison walls since the 1965 conflict. With the return of democracy to Pakistan Indian government must renew their effort to bring these POWs who went to war for their country as boys and have grown to old age in under terrible conditions that prevail in the jails in the subcontinent. Let us forget about what mistakes the officers of our forces made while excahnging prisoners after the conflicts, just overlook the transgressions of Geneva Convention, aim at getting the old men who left home as boys to defend the country. Let them spend their years of lengthening shadows in the loving company of their families in the warmth of their own homes, just so that their strangled spirits and long held breaths might find release in the fianl few years of lives that have been spent in captivity in foreign land. If there are any Pakistani POWs, they deserve the same generosity that ours deserve, just let them go home. They also are brave individuals who were fighting for what their country believes is a just cause. Our government strives to retrieve criminals ensconced in luxury in Pakistan, but not our soldiers who are, sons, brothers husbands and bear the loving burden of every sort of human relationship with us. The govt must not miss thsi opportunity.
