Indian prisoner Sarabjeet Singh's sister Dalbir Kaur has condemned the attack on Sanaullah Haq and asked the governments on both sides to ensure safety of prisoners. ...
01:47 PM, May 09, 2013
Amritsar: Ashes of Sarabjit Singh, who died after being brutally assaulted in a Pakistani jail, were on Sunday immersed in the Beas river at Goindwal Sahib in the neighbouring Tarn Taran district, as hundreds of people bade adieu to him with tearful eyes. Dalbir Kaur, the sister of Sarabjit, confirming the submersion of ashes, said that almost the entire residents of Bikhiwind village, besides Chief Parliament Secretary of Punjab Government...
02:15 AM, May 06, 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
Residents of Bhikiwind village in Punjab slammed the politicians who attended the cremation of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh on Friday, saying that they really did not care. ...
06:59 PM, May 03, 2013
Bhikhiwind: Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh was cremated on Friday with full state honours at his village in Bhikhiwind near Amritsar amidst heavy presence of politicians. Among those present at the funeral were Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal and Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi. The Punjab government had announced a financial assistance of Rs 1 crore for the family of Sarabjit and declared a...
02:38 PM, May 03, 2013
Bhikhiwind: Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who died in Pakistan on Thursday, after being attacked in a Lahore jail last week, will be cremated with full state honours in village Bhikhiwind on Friday. Grieving his death, his sister Dalbir Kaur called for snapping all ties with Pakistan. "India must give a suitable response and snap all entertainment, sporting and trade ties. There should be no dialogue with Pakistan," Dalbir Kaur said....
10:18 AM, May 03, 2013
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11:21 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
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
Lahore/New Delhi: 9.45 pm: Sarabjit's body flown to his village Bhikiwind in Punjab and taken for autopsy. 7.53 pm: Plane carrying Sarabjit Singh's mortal remains lands in Amritsar. State officials receive Sarabjit's body at airport. His body will be cremated with full state honours on Friday at his ancestral village. 7.48 pm: Punjab government announces Rs 1 crore compensation for Sarabjit's family and declares a three-day state mourning. 7.20 pm:...
04:06 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: Human rights activist Ansar Burney on Thursday refuted the claims made by Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh's sister Dalbir Kaur. Dalbir Kaur had claimed that Burney demanded Rs 25 crore from her to ensure Sarabjit's release from Pakistan. Rubbishing Dalbir Kaur's claims, Burney tweeted, "I was shocked to hear nonsense & false accusation by Dalbir Kaur, sister of Sarbajit Singh, I was the one who helped her every time....
02:36 PM, May 02, 2013
Lahore: Sarabjit Singh, who died on Thursday after being comatose for nearly a week following a brutal assault by fellow inmates, became the second Indian prisoner this year to die in Pakistan's notorious Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore. Sarabjit, 49, who was serving a death sentence, was brutally attacked on Friday by six fellow inmates as he and other prisoners were brought out of their cells for a break. He...
02:01 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: The last rites of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who died of a cardiac arrest in a Lahore hospital in the wee hours of Thursday, will be performed in his village Bhikhiwind in Punjab on Friday. Sarabjit was in a coma after he was attacked by six of his fellow inmates in a high-security jail in Lahore. Sarabjit was convicted of alleged involvement in a string of bomb attacks...
12:41 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh's sister Dalbir Kaur appealed on Thursday to all countrymen to unite and attack Pakistan, where her brother breathed his last in the wee hours of the day after remaining comatose for nearly a week following a brutal assault by his fellow inmates in a high-security Lahore jail. "Pakistan is a coward. It's time to wage a war against it," said Kaur, while addressing a...
12:03 PM, May 02, 2013
Lahore/Islamabad: Pakistani police on Thursday slapped murder charges against two death row prisoners who were booked for the brutal assault on fellow-inmate Sarabjit Singh, causing injuries which led to his death. The Lahore Police added murder charges to the FIR registered against death row prisoners - Amer Aftab alias Amer Tambewala and Mudassar - who were booked for the attack on 49-year-old Sarabjit on Friday last week. Officials at Kot...
11:23 AM, May 02, 2013
Amritsar: A pall of gloom on Thursday descended on Sarabjit Singh's native Bhikhiwind village as soon as the news of his death in a Lahore hospital spread with villagers closing all shops to protest the deadly attack on him. Locals of the sleepy border village started to throng Singh's house as soon as they got the news about his death. However, Singh's family member are camping in Delhi since Wednesday...
11:12 AM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Thursday told the family of Sarabjit Singh who died in a Lahore hospital that his body would be flown back to India in a special aircraft. "The Home Minister assured the family that a special aircraft would be arranged to bring the body from Pakistan," said Raj Kumar Verka, vice chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes, who was present...
10:13 AM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs has denied claims in Pakistani media that the Indian High Commission officials were consulted by Pakistani authorities before Sarabjit Singh was taken off ventilator support resulting in his death late on Wednesday night at Lahore's Jinnah Hospital. Sarabjit's family members also claimed that they came to know of his death from the Pakistani media and nothing was communicated to them officially. Meanwhile, Pakistan...
09:41 AM, May 02, 2013
