India has agreed to repatriate this month at least 29 Pakistanis held in Indian jails, leading Pakistani rights activist Ansar Burney said on Sunday.

Burney, who played a key role in the campaign to get Indian national Sarabjit Singh’s death sentence commuted to life imprisonment, said these 29 prisoners are among a total of 169 Pakistanis, including 19 mental patients and 29 women, currently in Indian jails. He received a list of the 169 prisoners during a recent visit to India.

Burney said he had also received a guarantee that many of these prisoners would be released by the Indian Government if the Ansar Burney Trust could confirm their nationality and convince the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi to provide travel documents to them.

The Trust publicised the list of prisoners in the Pakistani media and located the families of several prisoners to confirm their nationality. Details were forwarded to Pakistan’s foreign ministry and the High Commission in Delhi.