Rawalpindi- A foreign prisoner, who had been languishing in Adiala Jail under the Foreign Act, died at the jail hospital. The cause of the death could not be ascertained.
The deceased, who was identified as Zaid Muhammad and a Kenyan citizen, had been put in jail after he was arrested for illegal stay in Pakistan. The body was shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital for postmortem.
Jail sources said that a local court while sentencing him for illegal stay in Pakistan had directed the authorities to deport him after the jail term. The sources further said that they were in touch with the Kenyan officials in Islamabad to make arrangements to dispatch the body abroad.