Chandigarh: Almost 31 years after the search to find him was given up, an elated Surjeet Singh on Thursday crossed the Wagah border from Kot Lakhpat jail in Lahore and stepped on Indian soil. His return came just a day after the hopes of the family of another prisoner Sarabjit Singh of seeing him were dashed after it was clarified by Pakistan that it was Surjeet and not Sarabjit who...
10:44 PM, Jun 28, 2012
Surjeet was arrested by Pakistan for spying in 1981. He was given the death penalty in 1989, which was later commuted to a life term. ...
04:56 PM, Jun 28, 2012
Wagah (Pakistan): He may have been officially released from jail on Thursday morning but when Indian prisoner Surjeet Singh alighted from the prison van at the Wagah border on the Pakistan side, he was handcuffed and the iron chain was attached to the belt of a Pakistani police officer. Dressed in a white kurta-pyjama and black turban and carrying two bags, Surjeet, 69, slowly alighted from the prison van with...
12:34 PM, Jun 28, 2012
New Delhi: Surjeet Singh, who was released by Pakistan after 31 years on Thursday, revealed that Pakistan media was against another Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh's release. "Sarabjit is in a good condition there. I used to keep meeting him. A major problem for Sarabjit has been the Pakistan media, which always goes against him. I will try my best to get Sarabjit freed. I will meet ministers, will do anything...
12:13 PM, Jun 28, 2012
New Delhi: Surjeet Singh, who was released by Pakistan after languishing in jail for 31 years, crosses over to India at around 11.35 am after completing immigration formalities at the Wagah border on Thursday. After arriving in India, Surjeet Singh revealed that Pakistan media was against another Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh's release. "Sarabjit is in a good condition there. I used to keep meeting him. A major problem for Sarabjit...
11:49 AM, Jun 28, 2012
New Delhi: Indian prisoner Surjeet Singh, who was released from Lahore's Kot Lakhpat jail after three decades on Thursday, has reached the Wagah border on the Pakistan side on his way back home. After he emerged from the jail, Surjeet Singh said he was looking forward to meeting his family. "During my imprisonment I often remembered my family and children. Today I am very happy. I will go to the...
11:06 AM, Jun 28, 2012
Islamabad: Indian prisoner Surjeet Singh, who was released from Lahore's Kot Lakhpat jail after three decades Thursday, said that prisoners on both sides of the border should be released. Addressing reporters outside the jail in Punjabi, Surjeet said he had been arrested on charges of spying and would not return to Pakistan because he might be accused of the crime again. The 69-year-old, who spent over 30 years in Pakistani...
10:55 AM, Jun 28, 2012
New Delhi: Indian prisoner Surjeet Singh, who has served a life term following his arrest on charges of spying in the 1980s, has been released from Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore in Pakistan on Thursday. Pakistani policemen are now escorting the 69-year old to the Wagah border, where he will be handed over to Indian authorities. Indian officials said a team present at Wagah to receive over 300 fishermen being...
09:02 AM, Jun 28, 2012
New Delhi: Indian prisoner Surjeet Singh, who has served a life term following his arrest on charges of spying in the 1980s, is set to return home on Thursday after 31 long years. Pakistani policemen will escort the 69-year old to the Wagah border, where he will be handed over to Indian authorities. Surjeet Singh will be released from Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore at 10 am on Thursday, a...
07:50 AM, Jun 28, 2012
Islamabad: What should have been the release of an Indian death row prisoner has turned into an "international embarrassment" for the Pakistan government following the mix-up over the identity of two Indian nationals currently in a Pakistani jail. Hours after reports emerged yesterday that Pakistan was to release Sarabjit Singh, convicted and sentenced to death in 1990 for alleged involvement in a string of bombings, Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar clarified...
03:40 PM, Jun 27, 2012
Lahore: Pakistan's nuclear arsenal deterred India from carrying out any attacks and made the country's defence impregnable, former premier Nawaz Sharif has claimed. "India could have attacked Pakistan many times but Pakistan being an atomic power country,India could not gather the courage to do so," said Sharif, who heads the main opposition PML-N party. Pakistan emerged as a nuclear power after conducting a series of nuclear tests in 1998, when...
03:55 PM, May 29, 2012
PIA, the carrier that connects India with Pakistan, is often referred to, in jest, as the short form of 'please inform Allah' by domestic flyers. ...
08:58 PM, May 28, 2012
Lahore: A Pakistan Army helicopter with two personnel on board crashed into the Chenab River in Punjab province on Wednesday while on a routine flight, officials said. A pilot and a trainee pilot were aboard the helicopter when it came down at a spot located 100 km from Lahore. Officials said that the helicopter was on a routine flight from a base in Gujranwala when it lost contact with the...
04:29 PM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: A powerful bomb struck a crowded platform at a railway station in this Pakistani city on Tuesday, killing three persons and leaving over 40 others injured. The bomb that was planted in a bag exploded shortly after the Awami Express, travelling from Karachi to Peshawar, pulled into platform no 2 at the Lahore railway station. Eyewitness Asif Butt told the media that the blast occurred at 6.45 pm...
07:56 PM, Apr 24, 2012
Lahore: LeT founder Hafiz Saeed has moved the High Court, asking it to stop Pakistani authorities from taking any "adverse action" against him under pressure from the US and provide security to him as his life was "not safe" and any "mishap" could happen. Acting on the petition of Saeed for whom the US has offered a 10 million-dollar bounty, Lahore High Court Chief Justice Azmat Saeed Sheikh on Wednesday...
05:13 PM, Apr 18, 2012
Islamabad: Islamist leader Hafiz Saeed who had a $10 million American bounty placed on his head this week has been helping Pakistan de-radicalise militants under efforts to stabilise the strategic US ally, a top Pakistani counter-terrorism official said on Friday. Saeed, suspected of masterminding an attack by Pakistan-based gunmen on Mumbai in 2008 that killed 166 people, including six Americans, met government officials from the Punjab province and pledged his...
10:37 PM, Apr 06, 2012
Islamabad: Hafiz Saeed, the Mumbai terror attack mastermind and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief for whom the US has announced a bounty of $10 million, said Tuesday this was because he had opposing the re-opening of NATO supply lines to Afghanistan, a media report said. Saeed told the Al Jazeera TV channel the US move had come as he had been organising rallies against the re-opening of supply lines to NATO forces...
03:53 PM, Apr 03, 2012
Lahore: Pakistani authorities did not grant visas to members of the Indian band Euphoria, which was to perform at a university in Lahore last week, as the venue was within a cantonment, a representative of the organisers said today. Euphoria's performance at the prestigious Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) on March 23 was cancelled after Pakistan's Interior Ministry did not clear the issuance of visas to its members. "The...
03:48 PM, Mar 27, 2012
Lahore: Pakistani civil society activists have demanded that the square in Lahore where Bhagat Singh was hanged over eight decades ago should be renamed after the freedom fighter to honour his struggle to free the people of the region from the suppression and cruelty of British rule. During a ceremony held on Friday evening at Shadman Chowk, the spot where Singh was hanged on March 23, 1931, with his fellow...
12:26 PM, Mar 24, 2012
Srinagar: Forty-three years after it happened, few remember that one of the earliest plane hijacks in the world was carried out with a toy pistol by a 16-year-old Kashmiri boy. But in the mind of Hashim Qureshi, that boy who is now 59 years old, the incident still ticks away like the script of a high voltage Hollywood thriller. He hijacked an Indian Airlines Srinagar-Jammu flight to Lahore on January...
08:59 PM, Mar 20, 2012
