forced to fast. The Trust has appointed 84 people in various jails and mental asylums to take care of mental patients and prisoners. One of its achievements over the years has been the collection of data on Pakistani prisoners confined in different jails around the world due. The Trust provides legal advice and services to many such persons and arranges for their repatriation when released. Similarly the Trust has also been able to obtain the release of a number of foreign nationals from Pakistani jails and returned them to their respective home countries at the Trust's expense. Prominent cases Burney has been involved in the release of thousands of prisoners from prisons across the world. The following are some of the most prominent cases he had been involved in during his initial years as the head of the Prisoners Aid Society. Syed Muzaffar Ali Shah In 1985, Syed Muzaffar Ali Shah visited a police station to lodge a burglary report. He had been arrested under the Lunacy Act 37 years earlier. He was detained without ever being charged or presented before a court. He was finally released after the efforts of the Prisoners Aid Society. Mehar Din Arrested by police at age 20 on charges of murder because he had the same name as the person they were looking for, Meher Din spent the next four years behind bars until he was acquitted. Rather than being released, he was re-arrested on another murder charge and spent the next seventeen years behind bars without ever appearing in court. He was eventually transferred to a mental asylum within a prison and had no contact with his family for 21 years. He was released in 1987 after he was discovered by Burney of the Prisoners Aid Society. Mukhtar Mukhtar was arrested in an attempted murder case in 1952 in Kohat and was sentenced to seven years hard labour. After a year and a half in the D. I. Khan Jail, he was sent to the Peshawar Jail, where he remained for the next 18 years without being charged with any crime. In 1970, when someone noticed his continued incarceration, he was released but was rearrested in Karachi where he remained until 1987 when he was discovered by Ansar Burney who took this matter to the Sindh High Court and he was finally released. Mukhtar had spent a total of 35 years in jail.