Faridkot: Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh's killing in a Lahore jail has left the family of another prisoner of war in Pakistan, a worried lot. Surjit Singh, a BSF sepoy who is a prisoner of war for the past 42 years in Pakistan, remains untraceable and his wife Angrez Kaur and son Amrik Singh continue to live between hope and despair.
About a year back, Amrik sought Pakistan Human Rights activist Ansar Burney's help in tracing his father in Pakistan and says, Burney had assured him of all help. "But now, with the death of Sarbjit Singh and Sarbjit's sister Dalbir Kaur accusing Burney of betraying her and demanding huge money to secure Sarabjit's release, we have lost all hope," Amrik said. He now wants the Centre to take all possible steps to get Indian prisoners in Pakistani jails released.
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01:19 AM, May 08, 2013
New Delhi: Human rights activist Ansar Burney on Thursday refuted the claims made by Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh's sister Dalbir Kaur. Dalbir Kaur had claimed that Burney demanded Rs 25 crore from her to ensure Sarabjit's release from Pakistan. Rubbishing Dalbir Kaur's claims, Burney tweeted, "I was shocked to hear nonsense & false accusation by Dalbir Kaur, sister of Sarbajit Singh, I was the one who helped her every time....
02:36 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh's sister Dalbir Kaur appealed on Thursday to all countrymen to unite and attack Pakistan, where her brother breathed his last in the wee hours of the day after remaining comatose for nearly a week following a brutal assault by his fellow inmates in a high-security Lahore jail. "Pakistan is a coward. It's time to wage a war against it," said Kaur, while addressing a...
12:03 PM, May 02, 2013
Islamabad: The attack on Sarabjit Singh could have serious implications for Pakistan-India ties, said a Pakistani daily, adding that the fate of the Indian death row prisoner was caught in the problematic relationship between the two countries. Sarabjit was admitted to a Lahore hospital after a murderous attack on him in Kot Lakhpat jail April 26. He is in coma. His family has arrived in Pakistan on a special visa...
11:13 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Bangalore: All efforts are being made to exert pressure on Pakistan to ensure best medical treatment for Sarabjit Singh, Union Minister Manish Tewari said on Sunday. "All of us are extremely concerned about the condition of Sarabjit," Tewari told reporters, rejecting criticism of opposition parties that the attack on Singh in a Pakistani jail is a reflection of failure of India's foreign policy. Tewari said no civilised world would tolerate...
02:44 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Lahore: The main accused in the brutal attack on Indian national Sarabjit Singh in a Pakistani jail have told investigators that the attackers planned to kill him to take revenge for bombings he was accused of carrying out in Lahore. According to a preliminary report prepared by Deputy Inspector General of Police (Prisons) Malik Mubashir, the accused Amer Aftab and Mudassar, both death row prisoners said they hated Sarabjit because...
12:53 PM, Apr 28, 2013
New Delhi/Lahore: With Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh continuing to be in a coma and battling for life in state-run Jinnah Hospital in Lahore, India has offered medical assistance to Pakistan in treating him and has said Delhi will use the incident as an additional ground to push hard to get him back to his homeland. "The best we can, we will. Right now there is very little we...
08:00 AM, Apr 28, 2013
Lahore: Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh had spoken of a threat to his life from a fellow prisoner after the execution in India of Afzal Guru but Pakistani authorities failed to provide him adequate security, his lawyer said on Friday. "Sarabjit told me and a CID (Crime Investigation Department) official after the execution of Afzal Guru that a prisoner in Kot Lakhpat Jail had issued death threats. I brought...
01:45 AM, Apr 27, 2013
Human rights activist Ansar Burney condemned the attack and said, "We had some clue Sarabjit Singh would be attacked. Sarabjit must be sent back to India." ...
09:59 PM, Apr 26, 2013
Seeking immediate release of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian national on death row in Pakistan, his lawyer Awais Sheikh has said that Singh is a victim of politics on both sides of the border. ...
06:21 PM, Jan 19, 2013
Islamabad: Leading Pakistani rights activist Ansar Burney on Friday said he has dismissed his brother from his NGO for participating in a live TV show that featured a Hindu boy converting to Islam. "This conversion was a drama created by (TV show host) Maya Khan and my brother Sarim Burney. I have dismissed my brother from the Ansar Burney Trust," Burney told PTI on phone from London. Burney said he...
12:10 AM, Jul 28, 2012
New Delhi: As celebrations continued over Surjeet Singh's return from Pakistan to India, efforts picked up to bring back another Indian prisoner from Pakistan, Sarabjit Singh. However, Pakistani human rights activist Ansar Burney admitted that the government there is under pressure from religious extremists who are against Sarabjit's release. Sarabjit's family is running from pillar to post to expedite his release. On Thursday, the family met External Affairs Minister SM...
07:40 AM, Jun 29, 2012
Amritsar: Pakistan s human and civil rights activist Ansar Burney on Monday asked the Central government to grant him visa to visit Kashmir for interacting with people in an effort to establish peace in the Valley. He wanted to meet people to convince them that nothing could be achieved through violence, Burney said. The Kashmir problem was being encashed by politicians in both countries to derive political mileage, he said....
02:48 AM, Apr 24, 2012
Jaipur: Ansar Burney, who has been actively campaigning to save the life of death row convict Sarabjit Singh, has met the Indian prisoner's sister and daughter. Sarabjit has been in a Pakistan jail for over 20 years. Burney has also recently filed a fresh plea to commute Sarabjit's death sentence to life imprisonment. "We are making efforts to get death sentence of Sarabjit commuted to life imprisonment for which I...
05:06 PM, Apr 14, 2012
Attari: Pakistan leading human rights activist Ansar Burney on Thursday said he had recently filed a fresh mercy petition to President Asif Ali Zardari to save Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh. On arriving Attari, Burney told the media that in the petition the President of Pakistan he has sought commutation of the death sentence of Sarabjit to life imprisonment so that he could safely be repatriated to India to...
04:31 AM, Apr 13, 2012
The Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to 80-year-old Pakistani microbiologist Dr Mohd Khaleel Chishty undergoing life term in a murder case in Ajmer. ...
02:39 PM, Apr 09, 2012
Jaipur: Sister of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian on death row in Pakistan following his conviction for alleged involvement in bomb attacks, on Friday said she will appeal to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari during his Rajasthan visit to release his brother on humanitarian ground. Dalbir Kaur said she will try to meet Zardari during his private visit to Ajmer dargah on April 8. "Mercy petition of my brother is pending...
12:09 AM, Apr 07, 2012
Islamabad: Leading rights activist Ansar Burney has asked the Pakistan government to immediately free three Indian prisoners who had either completed their jail terms or whose release has been ordered by court. Indian national Surjeet Singh alias Makhan Singh had completed his prison term on October 30, 2010 but he continues to be held in prison, Burney said in letters sent to President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza...
05:33 PM, Apr 02, 2012
Pakistani human rights activist Ansar Burney met the families of the six sailors held captive for over 18 months on MV Iceberg by Somali pirates on Monday to offer his support. ...
10:41 AM, Sep 27, 2011
New Delhi: As the families of six Indian sailors who were onborad the MV Suez reached Delhi's international airport, there was a sense of relief. For the last 10 months they were meeting up as families who shared a common fear - will we ever get to see our men alive, home and safe. But Friday, June 24, 2011 was different. Sailor Satnam's mother said, "I am ecstatic because my...
08:34 PM, Jun 24, 2011
