After battling for life for more than six days following a brutal assault by fellow inmates inside Pakistan's Kot Lakhpat Jail, Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh died in a Lahore hospital on Thursday. ...
11:31 PM, May 02, 2013
After battling for life for more than six days following a brutal assault by fellow inmates inside Pakistan's Kot Lakhpat Jail, Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh died in a Lahore hospital on Thursday. ...
11:26 PM, May 02, 2013
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11:21 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: Sarabjit Singh's death following a brutal attack in a Pakistani jail triggered protests across India on Wednesday, with people hitting the streets in Jammu, Punjab, Bihar and Kolkata. A candlelight vigil was held in Jammu. In Kolkata, people burnt effigies of Paksitan president Asif Ali Zardari while in Patna, BJP workers shouted slogans against the UPA government and the Pakistani establishment. The news of his death also led...
10:56 PM, May 02, 2013
Lahore: Sarabjit Singh could not have been fatally attacked within the prison "without the knowledge and support of prison guards and the authorities", Pakistan's leading rights watchdog said on Thursday. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan demanded action against "all those who played any part in the assault" on Sarabjit, who died in Lahore's Jinnah Hospital after being comatose since the brutal assault on April 26. "Not even the most...
10:50 PM, May 02, 2013
On Thursday, the interim chief minister of Pakistan's Punjab assured the Indian High Commission that the murderers of Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh would be punished. ...
10:18 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: A "deeply saddened" Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday condoled the passing way of Sarabjit Singh and termed him a brave son of India. "I am deeply saddened by the passing away of Sarabjit Singh. He was a brave son of India who bore his tribulations with valiant fortitude," the prime minister said in a statement. The Prime Minister demanded that "the criminals responsible for the barbaric and murderous...
09:15 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: The special Air India plane carrying Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh's body landed in Amritsar on Thursday evening at 7.50 pm. Sarabjit's body was received by MoS External Affairs Preneet Kaur and Punjab government officials. A few hours after landing, his body was flown in a Indian Air Force helicopter to his ancestral village Bhikiwind and taken for autopsy. The body will be cremated with full state...
08:58 PM, May 02, 2013
Phagwara: A series of protest demonstrations were held here over the death of Sarabjit Singh in a Pakistani hospital, leading to diversion of international buses running between Delhi and Lahore in the neighbouring country. Activists of Shiv Sena, led by its state unit vice-president Inderjit Karwal, took out a protest march from Hanumangarhi temple and converged on National Highway 1 at Sugar Mill crossing. They blocked the traffic briefly in...
08:50 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: India was considering sending a team of doctors to Lahore to assess the medical condition of Sarabjit Singh after its suggestion for shifting him here was not accepted but he died before the plan could fructify. The proposal came up as Sarabjit's condition worsened and India was not sure about the quality of medical treatment being given to him, sources said. India was provided with daily updates about...
08:35 PM, May 02, 2013
Amritsar: Pakistani prisoners lodged in Indian jails were safe, Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur on Thursday said. Answering reporters' questions here this evening on ensuring the safety of Indian and Pakistan prisoners in each other's territories, Kaur said "Pakistani prisoners are safe in Indian jails. We are a responsible government." She said the Indian plane carrying the body of Sarabjit had taken off from Lahore International Airport...
08:25 PM, May 02, 2013
Lahore: In a damage control exercise shortly after Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh died in a Lahore hospital, Pakistani authorities on Thursday slapped murder charges against two jail inmates for his brutal killing and ordered a judicial probe. The decisions came after stinging criticism from India as also Sarabjit's family on Pakistan's refusal to hand over Sarabjit for better treatment and its inability to provide adequate security despite having being warned...
08:15 PM, May 02, 2013
Patna: Rahul Gandhi and Congress leaders should stop shedding "crocodile tears" over Sarabjit Singh's death, BJP leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy said on Thursday and demanded that the government makes a statement about steps taken to save the death row prisoner in Pakistan. "Today Congress crown prince Rahul Gandhi and other party leaders are shedding crocodile tears before the kin of Sarabjit Singh," Rudy said. "He (Rahul) is considered as the...
08:07 PM, May 02, 2013
Chandigarh: Punjab government on Thursday announced a financial assistance of Rs one crore for the family of Sarabjit Singh, who died in Pakistan following a murderous assault in a jail there, and declared a three-day state mourning. Flags will fly half mast on all government buildings and there will be no official ceremonial functions during this period, an official spokesman said here. Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal aannounced a financial...
07:59 PM, May 02, 2013
Pakistan Punjab interim CM Najam Sethi was speaking to Karan Thapar. ...
07:49 PM, May 02, 2013
Sarabjit Singh's body is expected to be flown back to India at 7.30 pm. The flight has reportedly been delayed by 30-40 minutes. ...
06:42 PM, May 02, 2013
Islamabad: Pakistani police on Thursday arrested and interrogated beleaguered former President Pervez Musharraf over the killing of Baloch leader Akbar Bugti in a 2006 military operation, one of three high-profile cases that have dogged him since he returned to the country from self-exile. A team of Balochistan Police arrested the former military ruler and grilled him for nearly four hours at his farmhouse on the outskirts of Islamabad, which was...
06:27 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: Fearing backlash in the wake of death of Sarabjit Singh after a murderous assault in a Lahore prison, Tihar authorities have stepped up security for all the 20 Pakistani inmates lodged in the high-security jail in New Delhi. "The jail staff has been directed to step up security for all the 20 Pakistani prisoners. They are being given enhanced protection," top sources said. They said the security has...
06:06 PM, May 02, 2013
Kushinagar: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday termed the death of Sarabjit Singh in Pakistan as "unfortunate" and said that he was not brought to India for treatment because of certain circumstances. Nitish was in Kushinagar to pay tributes at the "mahaparinirvan" temple of Bhagwan Budha on Thursday morning. Arriving as per the schedule by a special helicopter at 7:30 on Thursday morning to a rousing reception by his...
05:46 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Thursday ruled out internationalising Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh's death following the brutal assault in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat jail even as 215 fishermen and 55 other Indian nationals continue to languish in Pakistani prisons as of January 1, 2013. MEA spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin while addressing a press conference on Thursday in New Delhi said, "India and Pakistan are wedded to bilateralism and...
05:21 PM, May 02, 2013
