Foreign Office Monday said that the government has decided to release an Indian spy Hamid Nehal Ansari after completion of his sentence who is being repatriated to India. "Hamid Nehal Ansari, an Indian spy who had illegally entered Pakistan and was involved in anti-state crimes and forging documents, is being released upon completion of his sentence and is being repatriated to India," Spokesperson Foreign Office Dr Mohammad Faisal announced through a tweet.

Ansari, an Indian national and a Mumbai resident, was arrested in 2012 for illegally entering Pakistan from Afghanistan reportedly to meet a girl he had befriended online. On December 15, 2015, a Field General Court Martial sentenced him for three years on the charges of espionage and anti-state activities. Since then, he had been held in Peshawar jail till completion of his term.

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