Pakistani officials say a British national whose death sentence was commuted by President Pervez Musharraf has been freed from prison.
Pakistan's Interior Ministry says Mirza Tahir Hussain was released from prison early Friday.
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| Amjad Hussain shows photograph of his brother Tahir Mirza Hussain in Islamabad, Pakistan |
President Musharraf commuted Hussain's death sentence Thursday, making the Briton eligible for release because of the time he had already served on death row.
The 36-year-old Hussain, a British national of Pakistani descent, spent the past 18 years in prison for killing a taxi driver in 1988.
Britain's Prince Charles and Prime Minister Tony Blair both pressed Pakistan to free Hussain, who says the killing was in self-defense and that he was the victim of a miscarriage of justice.
Some information for this report provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.
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