RAWALPINDI, Oct 23: Forty-eight deported Pakistanis detained in various US prisons arrived at the Islamabad International Airport on Thursday.

Earlier, the department of homeland security bureau of immigration and customs enforcement office of detention and removals of the United States had informed Pakistan immigration authorities that 84 deportees would arrive. But due to some unknown reasons, only 48 deportees reached here by a chartered flight from Buffalo.

Imran Ali, the second secretary to the Pakistan embassy in the US, had accompanied the deportees. Twenty-five of the deported Pakistanis belong to Sindh, six to the NWFP and 17 to Punjab.