Srinagar: The hardline Hurriyat Conference on Saturday demanded strengthening of security apparatus inside Indian and Pakistani jails to stop murderous assaults on inmates. "It is the responsibility of both countries to ensure safety of prisoners in their jails. We appeal for strengthening of security in the jails across the border and an immediate end to murderous assaults by prisoners on each other," Hurriyat chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani told reporters...
07:30 PM, May 04, 2013
Chandigarh: Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Haq is on ventilator support and his blood pressure is being maintained with the help of medicines, doctors, attending him at PGI, Chandigarh, said in a health bulletin on Saturday. Meanwhile, Vinod Kumar who had allegedly attacked and critically injured the 52-year-old Pakistani prisoner, was remanded to seven days police custody. The Forest Court has remanded prisoner Vinod Kumar to seven days police custody in connection...
06:03 PM, May 04, 2013
Jammu: After the murderous attack on a Pakistani prisoner in the Kot Bhalwal Jail here, the 17 other Pakistani prisoners have been moved to separate barracks although all Indian and Pakistani inmates work together under strict vigil, an official said on Saturday. "They are now kept in segregated barracks. But since they have to undergo rigorous imprisonment they have to put in labour. So while working, all of them, whether...
04:40 PM, May 04, 2013
Chandigarh: Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Haq is on ventilator support and his blood pressure is being maintained with the help of medicines, doctors, attending him at PGI, Chandigarh, said in a health bulletin on Saturday. "The patient is critical, he is on ventilator and his BP is being maintained through drugs. Head injuries are there and CT scan shows edema and contusions," said Dr Manju Wadwalkar, PRO PGI Hospital. Earlier, the...
12:23 PM, May 04, 2013
Islamabad: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has left on a foreign trip and will not be present in the country when it goes to polls on May 11, according to a media report on Friday. Bilawal, 24, will not address any rallies or meetings ahead of the general elections due to threats to his life, sources in the PPP were quoted as saying in the report on...
11:17 AM, May 04, 2013
As Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Haq continued to remain critical, Pakistan High Commission officials visited him on Saturday. ...
09:27 AM, May 04, 2013
Chandigarh: As Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Haq continued to remain critical, Pakistan High Commission officials visited him on Saturday. Sanaullah was attacked by his fellow Indian inmate in a Jammu jail on Friday and is currently being treated at PGI, Chandigarh. Pakistan has asked India to ensure a thorough investigation into the incident and Delhi has assured full cooperation to Pakistan saying it will provide "whatever assistance will be needed" in...
09:06 AM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: An inmate at the high security Tihar prison died and five sustained injuries on Friday following a violent clash between two groups. Sources said Javed, a resident of Seelumpur, succumbed to injuries at around 4 pm on Friday. His body has been sent for postmortem but prima facie it appears that he was attacked with improvised knife. This is the third unnatural death in 2013 in India's most...
08:37 AM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: As Pakistan prisoner Sanaullah Haq, who was attacked in a Jammu jail by his fellow Indian inmate on Friday, continues to be treated in a Chandigarh hospital, Islamabad has asked Delhi to ensure a thorough investigation into the incident. Pakistan's caretaker Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso called on his Indian counterpart to personally look into the incident and ensure a thorough investigation. "We have also called for...
08:14 AM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: National Democratic Alliance (NDA) MPs on Friday met President Pranab Mukherjee over Chinese incursion in Ladakh. The MPs also took up with the president the manner in which the Sarabjit Singh issue was handled by the government. The delegation, led by senior leader and NDA working chairperson LK Advani, also submitted a memorandum seeking the president's intervention on both the issues. They demanded that Mukherjee discuss these issues...
05:12 AM, May 04, 2013
Lahore: A week after Indian national Sarabjit Singh was fatally attacked within a Pakistani jail, authorities on Friday suspended three senior prison officials over the incident. The Home Secretary of Punjab province suspended the three officials from service for alleged negligence that led to the brutal attack on Sarabjit within Kot Lakhpat Jail. The three officials are Kot Lakhpat Jail Superintendent Mohsin Rafique, Additional Superintendent Ishtiaq Gill and Deputy Superintendent...
01:40 AM, May 04, 2013
Islamabad: The party of former Pakistan military ruler Pervez Musharraf, facing a series of legal cases over his actions while in power, on Friday said it would boycott Pakistan's May 11, 2013 general election. The move came in the wake of the Peshawar High Court's order barring Musharraf from contesting polls for the rest of his life. Musharraf has also been arrested over the imposition of emergency rule in 2007,...
01:19 AM, May 04, 2013
Islamabad: Pakistan's caretaker Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso on Friday called on his Indian counterpart to personally look into an attack on a Pakistani prisoner in a jail in Jammu and ensure a thorough investigation. Sanaullah, a Pakistani national serving a life sentence was attacked in the prison in Jammu and Kashmir, a day after Indian national Sarabjit Singh succumbed to injuries sustained in a brutal assault within a...
01:08 AM, May 04, 2013
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11:48 PM, May 03, 2013
A day after Indian convict Sarabjit Singh died of a cardiac arrest in a Pakistan hospital following an assault by his fellow inmates in a Lahore jail, a Pakistani prisoner was beaten up by other inmates in a Jammu jail on Friday. The prisoner Sanaullah Haq was attacked by his fellow inmates in a cell of Central Jail Kotbhalwal on Friday morning. ...
11:37 PM, May 03, 2013
Islamabad: An Awami National Party leader contesting Pakistan's upcoming general election and his six-year-old son were gunned down by the Taliban outside a mosque in the southern port city of Karachi on Friday. Sadiq Zaman Khattak, a candidate for polls to a parliamentary seat in Karachi, and his son were attacked by gunmen as they were leaving a mosque in Bilal Colony after Friday prayers. The attackers, who were riding...
10:38 PM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: Seeking to blunt BJP critcism of "inaction" by UPA government in Sarabit Singh case, the Congress on Friday released a paper documenting actions taken by the government in the matter and accused NDA of "never raising the issue" when the Opposition alliance was in power. The three-page document released by AICC said "it started in 1990. Sarabjit was in jail all through NDA rule but never did the...
10:26 PM, May 03, 2013
From the moment Sarabjit Singh's body arrived in India, to it being transported to his village, the postmortem being conducted and finally the funeral rites itself - both the state and central governments ensured there were no hiccups. ...
10:04 PM, May 03, 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
New Delhi: On a day when Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, victim of a brutal assault in a Pakistani jail, was cremated with full state honours and a Pakistani prisoner was attacked in an Indian jail, the question that arises is whether vengeance or tit-for-tat violence is the answer to the crisis. Sarabjit Singh was brutally assaulted by his prison inmates in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat jail in April. He succumbed to...
09:41 PM, May 03, 2013
