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Summary Ansar Burney has said that five million more US dollars have been given to the Somali pirates.
Prominent human rights activist Ansar Burney was talking to Dunya News on Sunday. He said that five million more US dollars had been transferred to the account of the shipping company’s owner and the hostages would then be released very soon. He said that the money given to the Somali pirates should not have been termed as ransom; instead, it was given to save 22 human lives.Burney said that all that money had been arranged with the joint efforts of the Ansar Burney Trust and Governor Sindh Ishrat ul Ebad. He said that Governor Sindh had been in touch with all the steps taken towards the release of the hostages.Ansar Burney would leave for Egypt from Dubai tomorrow evening and then arrive in Yemen.
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