
Islamabad: Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, convicted for alleged involvement in bomb attacks in 1990 in Pakistan, has sent a fresh clemency appeal to President Asif Ali Zardari, a media report said on Tuesday. This is the fifth mercy petition from Sarabjit, who was sentenced to death for alleged involvement in a string of bombings in Punjab in 1990 that killed 14 people. The 49-year-old Indian is currently being...

10:59 AM, May 29, 2012

New Delhi: Press Council of India chairman Justice Markandey Katju's appeal to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari for the release of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who is lodged in a Pakistani jail, has found support across the border. Following Katju's appeal, Senator Syed Faseih Iqbal, a member of Press Council of Pakistan, has also written to Zardari seeking Sarabjit's release. Iqbal also wrote a letter to Katju in which he...

10:35 PM, Apr 14, 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

New Delhi: The release Pakistani doctor Khaleel Chishty in Ajmer has brought a new ray of hope for the family of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh. The death row convict has been languishing in a Pakistani jail after he was found guilty in the 1990 Lahore serial blasts case. Meanwhile, Chishty walked out of an Ajmer jail on Wednesday after the Supreme Court granted him bail on humanitarian grounds. But he's...

06:33 AM, Apr 12, 2012

New Delhi: The Congress as well as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday demanded that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ask for strict action against Lashkar-e-Toiba founder and 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks plotter Hafiz Saeed when he meets Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari. The BJP raised the stakes ahead of Zardari's India visit on Sunday by demanding that India should take up the twin issues of Hafiz Saeed and Sarabjit...

03:24 PM, Apr 07, 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...

09:12 AM, Apr 07, 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

New Delhi: India on Thursday asked Pakistan to free Sarabjit Singh, an Indian national on death row who was convicted for alleged involvement in multiple blasts in Lahore and Multan in 1990, on humanitarian grounds. "It is not our case that he was involved (in those blasts)," External Affairs Minister SM Krishna told the Rajya Sabha during question hour. "We don't share Pakistan's view of his involvement." The minister stressed...

04:40 PM, Aug 11, 2011

Attari: The people of Pakistan, including politicians and bureaucrats, are not averse to the release of condemned prisoner Sarabjit Singh, his sister Dalbir Kaur said on Tuesday while urging Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to intervene for an early liberation of the captive. Kaur returned home on Tuesday after spending a month in the neighbouring country during which she met Sarabjit twice. "During my visit to Pakistan I met a battery...

06:44 PM, Jul 05, 2011

Jalandhar: The sister of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian national on death row in Pakistan, has met him for the second time in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail, according to his daughter. Dalbir Kaur met Singh in the Jail on Friday and the two exchanged presents. An emotional Singh sent wishes for his daughter's upcoming birthday. "He has also sent greeting cards for me and my sister," Singh's daughter Swapandeep said. A...

12:34 PM, Jul 01, 2011

Jalandhar: Sister of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian national on death row in Pakistan, on Thursday met him in prison, his daughter has claimed. Dalbir Kaur is coming back on July 5 from Pakistan, Singh's daughter Swapandeep said. According to Swapandeep, the two exchanged presents during their meeting. An emotional Singh also sent wishes for his daughter's upcoming birthday. He gave greeting cards to Kaur for his two daughters in India....

12:30 AM, Jul 01, 2011

Lahore: A Pakistani court has issued notice to the federal government seeking its response within three weeks to a writ petition against the possible grant of a presidential pardon to Indian national Sarbajit Singh, currently on death row. Singh was convicted for alleged involvement in four bomb attacks in Punjab province that killed 14 people in 1990. Lawyer Rana Ilamuddin Ghazi filed the petition on Tuesday in the Lahore High...

08:18 AM, Jun 15, 2011

Lahore: The sister of Indian national Sarabjit Singh, sentenced to death in Pakistan for alleged involvement in bomb blasts in Punjab province, is hopeful that her brother would be released soon. Dalbir Kaur, who met Sarabjit in Kot Lakhpat jail in this eastern Pakistani city on Monday, said she would appeal to the Pakistan government for his release. "I will also try to meet Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik. He...

07:12 PM, Jun 07, 2011

Islamabad: A Constitutional petition has been filed in Pakistan's Supreme Court (SC) for reopening and re-adjudicating the case of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian national currently on death row in a prison in Lahore following his conviction for alleged involvement in bomb attacks in 1990. The petition filed in the Lahore Registry of the Supreme Court on Saturday by Sarabjit's counsel Awais Sheikh also sought a review of his appeal against...

02:23 PM, Mar 06, 2011