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: A 12-member delegation, led by Home Secretary RK Singh, on Wednesday left for Pakistan for the Home Secretary-level talks beginning on Thursday where a relaxed visa regime is expected to be inked apart from New Delhi pressing for action against perpetrators of the 26/11 attack. The broad agenda of the two-day talks would focus on terrorism, fugitives from Indian law like underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, who are believed...
02:22 PM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: India will take up with Pakistan the issue of early release of Sarabjit Singh, the condemned Indian prisoner currently lodged in a Lahore jail, during the Home Secretary-level talks on May 24-25. This was conveyed by Home Minister P. Chidambaram to Sarabjit's sister Dalbir Kaur, who met him in Delhi on Monday to request him to ask Home Secretary RK Singh to raise the issue of Sarabjit during...
02:48 PM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistani microbiologist Khalil Chisty reached New Delhi on Monday night from Ajmer as he set out on his journey back home for a temporary period, after spending almost two decades in India. After receiving his passport from a local court in Ajmer, Chisty boarded Shatabdi Express along with his brother Jamil Chisty and others and reached New Delhi rail station at around 11 PM. Chisty said he will...
12:16 AM, May 15, 2012
Ajmer: Octogenarian Pakistani prisoner Mohammad Khaleel Chishty, who was on Thursday permitted by the Supreme Court to visit Pakistan for a temporary stay, would like to meet Sarabjit Singh, the Indian prisoner on death row in Pakistan for terrorism, his family members said. "I have heard about Sarabjit Singh's case. He is languishing in Pakistan jails for many years. I really want to meet him and would also try to...
03:56 AM, May 12, 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
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