Chandigarh: Injured Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Haq's family members arrived at the Wagah border on Tuesday as he continues to fight for his life at a hospital in Chandigarh. The doctors said that condition of Sanaullah, who was attacked in a Jammu jail last week, has worsened. The 59-year-old continues to be in deep coma. His family is hoping to visit him in hospital in Chandigarh. Two of them have arrived...
12:19 PM, May 07, 2013
Islamabad: Pakistan Punjab's caretaker Chief Minister Najam Sethi has said that Pakistan no longer considers India to be an existential threat. Speaking to CNN-IBN's Karan Thapar, Sethi said that India needs to realise that. Following is an excerpt from the interview: Karan Thapar: The second aspect of the electoral campaign that is underway in Pakistan that is being picked up by India is the fact that Kashmir as an issue...
09:57 AM, May 07, 2013
Ahmedabad: The attack on Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Haq happened just after Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh succumbed to his injuries from an attack in a Lahore prison. Human rights activists fear these prisoners are caught in a no man's land. Sixty-year old Ukardiben is struggling to make ends meet. Her son Sunilal and son-in-law Vijay, both fishermen, have been in a Pakistan jail for the past eight months, after straying into...
09:07 AM, May 07, 2013
Chandigarh: Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Haq's condition has worsened and he remains in deep coma, the doctors said. Sanaullah was attacked in a Jammu jail last week. His family is hoping to visit him in hospital in Chandigarh. The Indian High Commission in Islamabad on Monday granted visas for visiting India to two of Sanaullah's relatives. The visa applications of Sanaullah's brother-in-law and cousin were received at the Indian High Commission...
07:49 AM, May 07, 2013
Jaipur: Khadims (priests) at the dargah (shrine) of Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer have decided not to assist Pakistani pilgrims in offering prayers at the shrine. Several groups of khadims have decided to join the increasing protests against the killing of Sarabjit. About 640 pilgrims from Pakistan will be visiting Rajasthan's Ajmer town later this week. The pilgrims are expected to arrive in Ajmer May 12, 2013 to participate in...
04:32 AM, May 07, 2013
Chandigarh: The high commissioner of Pakistan will visit Chandigarh Monday to see a Pakistani prisoner admitted in a critical condition at the PGIMER in Chandigarh, a diplomat said, even as his condition continued to be critical. "The high commissioner (Salman Bashir) will be visiting Chandigarh on Monday to see Sanaullah, who is under medical treatment at PGIMER," Pakistani diplomat Manzoor Ali Memon, one of the three diplomats granted consular access...
05:22 AM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: India on Sunday granted Pakistan High Commissioner permission to visit Chandigarh and meet injured prisoner Sanuallah Haq after he slipped into a deep coma. Sanaullah had been brutally assaulted by inmates inside a Jammu Jail last week. Pakistan officials visited him at PGI, Chandigarh on Sunday after India granted consular access on Friday. The officials said that he continues to be critical, adding that the 52-year-old is critical...
06:47 PM, May 05, 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
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
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
Has the death of Sarabjit Singh in an attack inside a high security Pakistani jail put paid to any possibility of a rapprochement between New Delhi and Islamabad? Security analyst Praveen Swami joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. Sir, now that a Pakistani prisoner has been attacked as well,does that make the act equation balancing one?and doesn't the array of questions thrown at Pakistan boomerang back...
05:09 PM, May 03, 2013
Reacting to the attack on Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Haq in Jammu's Kotbhalwal Jail, National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah said, "Sarabjit died, Sanaullah will not die." He also said that there is anger in the country over Sarabjit's death, but 'we should control our anger'. "There is tremendous anger over Sarabjit. So some prisoners will be attacked, not justifying it. We are controlling our anger as best as we can," Farooq ...
01:12 PM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Haq was attacked a fellow inmate inside Jammu's Kot Bhalwal Jail on Friday morning has suffered serious injuries in right temporal lobe region and is in a very critical condition. Haq was attacked just a day after Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh died in a Pakistani hospital following a murderous assault in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail. Sanaullah Haq is a resident of Dallowali near Sialkot in...
01:10 PM, May 03, 2013
Jammu: 8.39 pm: Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Haq to undergo treatment in Chandigarh hospital for now, won't be sent to Pakistan. 8.16 pm: India allows officials from Pakistan to meet injured prisoner Sanaullah Haq in Chandigarh hospital. India has also given travel permission for officials. Till now, India had said consular access would follow after doctors cleared it. However, there has been no word on repatriating the prisoner. 7.43 pm: Pakistani...
12:08 PM, May 03, 2013
Jammu: 11:39 am: The Pakistan High Commission has taken up the attack on Sanaullah Haq with the Ministry of External Affairs and has sought consular access. Pakistan has sought a detailed report on the incident. 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...
10:32 AM, May 03, 2013
Islamabad: The Pakistani prosecutor handling the 26/11 Mumbai attack case and the Benazir Bhutto assassination case has reportedly been shot dead in Islamabad. Chaudhry Zulfiqar, the prosecutor of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), was shot dead by unidentified armed men in Islamabad on Friday morning, Pakistan's Geo News reported. Reports say unidentified armed motorcycle-borne men opened fire on Chaudhry Zulfiqar. He was critically injured and was being rushed to the hospital...
09:22 AM, May 03, 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
New Delhi: The vigil has been stepped up in Tihar Jail to pre-empt any attack on Pakistani inmates in the wake of the brutal assault on Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh in a Pakistani jail. "Jail superintendents have been asked to keep a strict vigil on other inmates so that no one can hurt Pakistani inmates," a senior jail official told IANS. According to the official, jail staff have...
05:34 AM, Apr 28, 2013
