New Delhi: The body of Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Haq, who succumbed to injuries in a Chandigarh hospital on Thursday, will be handed over to Pakistan. "We will hand over the body to Pakistan," Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said.
Shinde said the Ministry of External Affairs is coordinating with the Pakistani authorities to complete the formalities to send back his body home. "Once the formalities are done, we will hand over the body," he said.
Sources said a detailed post-mortem of Sanaullah would be done in Chandigarh and the travel arrangements would be made as per the request made by Pakistan. Government has been informed that Pakistan is arranging an aircraft to fly his body back home, the sources said, adding "If they arrange a non-military registered plane, the clearance would be prompt".
Sanaullah, a convicted terrorist serving life sentence, was injured in a scuffle with another inmate in the high-security Kot Balwal jail in Jammu and rushed to the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) in Chandigarh on May 3....
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09:59 AM, May 09, 2013
Chandigarh: Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah passed away at 6:30 am on Thursday at PGIMER, Chandigarh due to multiple organ failure, sources said. Sanaullah was injured in a scuffle with another inmate in the high security Kot Bhalwal jail in Jammu on May 3. "The patient was brought in a brain dead condition and died this morning due to multiple organ failure," a hospital spokesperson said. Pakistan High Commission Spokesperson Manzoor Memon...
08:16 AM, May 09, 2013
Chandigarh: Injured Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Haq's family members arrived at the Wagah border on Tuesday as he continues to fight for his life at a hospital in Chandigarh. The doctors said that condition of Sanaullah, who was attacked in a Jammu jail last week, has worsened. The 59-year-old continues to be in deep coma. His family is hoping to visit him in hospital in Chandigarh. Two of them have arrived...
12:19 PM, May 07, 2013
Srinagar: As India grieved for Sarabjit Singh, a Pakistani prisoner was attacked in a Jammu jail on Friday. Despite the government's advisory to step up security for Pakistani nationals, Sanaullah Haq was bludgeoned with a pickaxe by a fellow inmate, who is a former Indian Army man. The State was embarrassed as was the Centre. Jammu and Kashmir Congress President Saifuddin Soz said, "It should not have happened because ours...
09:57 PM, May 03, 2013
Reacting to the attack on Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Haq in Jammu's Kotbhalwal Jail, National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah said, "Sarabjit died, Sanaullah will not die." He also said that there is anger in the country over Sarabjit's death, but 'we should control our anger'. "There is tremendous anger over Sarabjit. So some prisoners will be attacked, not justifying it. We are controlling our anger as best as we can," Farooq ...
01:12 PM, May 03, 2013
Jammu: 8.39 pm: Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Haq to undergo treatment in Chandigarh hospital for now, won't be sent to Pakistan. 8.16 pm: India allows officials from Pakistan to meet injured prisoner Sanaullah Haq in Chandigarh hospital. India has also given travel permission for officials. Till now, India had said consular access would follow after doctors cleared it. However, there has been no word on repatriating the prisoner. 7.43 pm: Pakistani...
12:08 PM, May 03, 2013
Berlin: Germany will support building up of renewable energy in India by providing soft loans of up to 1 billion euros ($ 1.3 billion) for a six-year period starting in 2014. Germany's offer as part of its development cooperation with India was made in a "joint declaration of intent" signed by Union Minister for Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah and parliamentary state secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and...
01:06 PM, Apr 13, 2013
New Delhi: Increasing renewable energy supply requires a favourable policy environment which can encourage private investment, New and Renewable Energy Minister Farooq Abdullah said in Delhi on Monday. "In fact, in India much of the renewable energy development - especially that which is grid-connected - has taken place with private sector investment. "There are issues such as effective integration of renewable energy in the grid, use of smart grids, and...
12:47 AM, Apr 09, 2013
Jammu: Union Minister and National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah on Sunday said the advent of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on the national scene will not pose a challenge to the Congress. "Yes, Congress will gain in big way," the Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy told reporters when asked whether Congress will gain by Modi's foray into the national politics. "You don't know Congress, they want Modi to...
11:43 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Raipur: Appreciating the ongoing development work in the state, Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah on Friday said that a new India was taking shape in the newly-formed Chhattisgarh and the Centre would extend all "possible support" on renewable energy projects. "A new India is taking shape in the newly-formed state," Abdullah said while inaugurating the 1 MW solar plant at the new Mantralaya building in Raipur....
02:10 AM, Apr 06, 2013
Relenting to the Jammu and Kashmir government's pressure, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has handed over Hizbul terrorist Liaqat Shah's case to the National Investigation Agency (NIA). National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah has welcomed the decision and said that the probe will clear everything. ...
04:56 PM, Mar 25, 2013
India is looking forward to establishing a club of nations blessed with sufficient sunlight and harness energy to promote solar power as a substitute to the conventional form of energy, Union minister Farooq Abdullah said in New Delhi on Monday. ...
02:00 AM, Mar 12, 2013
Former beauty queen and Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan feels strongly about safety of women in the country and says a lot needs to be done to make them feel secure. ...
10:32 AM, Feb 21, 2013
Union Minister and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah said that he was pained by the fact that 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru's family wasn't given a chance to meet him for one last time before he was hanged on Saturday morning in Delhi's Tihar Jail. However, Farooq said that there was no question of leaving the UPA government over this issue. ...
04:28 PM, Feb 11, 2013
Union New and Renewable Energy Minister Farooq Abdullah is among the leaders and government officials from key renewable energy markets scheduled to attend the sixth World Future Energy Summit (WFES), to be held in Abu Dhabi from January 15-17. WFES is a leading platform for renewable energy innovation and investment and is part of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week. ...
11:05 AM, Jan 09, 2013
Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association president Farooq Abdullah has ordered an inquiry into the Ranji team selection fiasco a day after JKCA treasurer Manzoor Wazir had tendered his resignation for failing to end the impasse. Wazir had dispatched his resignation to Abdullah on Friday, stating that he made every possible effort to ease things out between JKCA and Kashmiri players over the issue of team selection and captaincy, but all...
08:13 PM, Dec 01, 2012
New Delhi: With the government gearing up to face the Opposition onslaught in Winter Session of Parliament on FDI in retail issue besides hike in diesel price, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday hosted a dinner for Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav. The dinner meeting, seen as an attempt to reach out to Yadav, comes days ahead of the Winter Session of Parliament which commences on November 22. Yadav's...
10:50 PM, Nov 09, 2012
Srinagar: Following the footsteps of his son and Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, Union Minister Farooq Abdullah has also surrendered his two LPG connections. This after IBNLive had reported how amid a massive crisis of LPG cylinders in the Kashmir Valley, the Chief Minister was enjoying the luxury of three connections. Farooq and Omar Abdullah surrendered their two extra LPG connections each on Saturday. Like his son Omar,...
08:01 PM, Nov 04, 2012
New Delhi: From Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's wife Gursharan Kaur to Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi to celebrities like Nandita Das and Imtiaz Ali, the Dawat-e-Walima (wedding reception) of star couple Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor here Thursday saw the who's who from politics and Bollywood in their finery. Dressed in elegant sherwanis and colourful ghararas, lehengas and saris, some of the country's noted personalities attended the grand event,...
11:54 AM, Oct 19, 2012
Srinagar: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi said on Thursday it was his desire to forge a relationship with the people of Kashmir, to understand their pain and suffering and help mitigate the problems of the region. "I want to reiterate that my family also comes from Kashmir and I am also a Kashmiri. As Dr Farooq Abdullah has said, his father and my grandfather joined hands for Kashmir. I am...
03:30 AM, Oct 05, 2012
