Pakistan, March 7 -- Pakistan on Wednesday launched the process to bring back over 50,000 citizens, most of them illegal immigrants, languishing in Turkish jails for long.

A three-member committee comprising senior officials from the Federal Investigation (FIA), NADRA, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Interior has been set up and directed to submit a comprehensive action plan for immediate repatriation of Pakistani prisoners from Turkey and Greece.

During a recent visit by Minister of State for Interior Shehryar Khan Afridi to Ankara, the Turkish interior minister had informed him that the previous government of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) had been requested to verify identity of Pakistani citizens languishing in Tur...