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
Patiala: In the backdrop of the fatal attack on Sarabjit Singh in a Lahore jail, Punjab government on Thursday tightened the security of Pakistani prisoners lodged in various jails of the state. The state government directed superintendents of jails in the Central jails of Punjab to shift Pakistani prisoners in the side barracks and Indian prisoners would not be allowed to interact with them, jail department sources told reporters. As...
10:35 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
The death of Indian national Sarabjit Singh in a Pakistani hospital after a brutal attack on him inside jail premises has angered a substantial section of the Indian society. How should India respond to this? Does this have the potential to ruin India-Pakistan relations? Suhasini Haidar, senior editor, CNN-IBN, joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. @ShashiTharoor : We all mourn for #SarabjitSingh. But several parties hv...
04:44 PM, May 02, 2013
Islamabad: A Pakistani medical board completed autopsy on the body of Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh, who died early on Thursday after being comatose for almost a week following an attack by other prisoners at a Lahore jail. A six-member medical board performed the autopsy of Sarabjit at the Jinnah Hospital in Lahore, media reports said. Sarabjit's body is expected to be flown back to India on a special...
03:18 PM, May 02, 2013
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh's death was not a foreign policy failure. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Khurshid also said he hopes this comes as a lesson for Pakistan. "We hope that this comes as a lesson to Pakistan. This is not the time for the BJP to play politics. We don't see this as a foreign policy failure," Khurshid said. ...
03:00 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
Chandigarh: The Punjab government on Thursday announced that Sarabjit Singh, an Indian prisoner who died in a Lahore hospital after a brutal attack on him, would be given a state-level funeral after his body is handed over and brought back to India. Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, in a statement, said that Sarabjit Singh would be given a state-level funeral after his body is brought back to India. He...
10:36 AM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: The death of Sarabjit Singh in a Lahore hospital days after a brutal attack on him in a prison was "put simply, the killing of our citizen while in the custody of Pakistan jail authorities", the External Affairs Ministry said on Thursday. In a statement, the ministry said India has asked Pakistan to "release the body of Sarabjit Singh so that he can be given a funeral in...
10:25 AM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: "It is a cold blooded murder," said BJP leader Sushma Swaraj on Thursday following the death of Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh in Pakistan. "It is a cold blooded murder. This is not the way civilized nations behave. #Sarabjit Singh," tweeted Sushma Swaraj. Sarabjit Singh died early on Thursday in a Lahore hospital where he was admitted after being being savagely attacked in Kot Lakhpat Jail on...
10:06 AM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi lashed out at Pakistan over Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh's death. He said it is futile to expect Pakistan to follow the due process of law. "Sarabjit's extra-judicial killing is yet another grim reminder that expecting Pakistan to follow due process of law in any sphere is futile," Modi tweeted. Blaming the Government of India, Modi tweeted. "Both, the Government of India & Government...
09:56 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
Lahore/New Delhi: 3:46 pm: Another post-mortem of Sarabjit Singh will be conducted when his body reaches Amritsar. 3:29 pm: Sarabjit Singh's post-mortem report will be released in Pakistan in three weeks. 3:09 pm: The post-mortem of Sarabjit Singh has been completed in Pakistan and his body will be handed over to Indian officials shortly. 2:44 pm: The Indian Foreign Secretary has spoken to his Pakistani counterpart asking him to speed...
08:31 AM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: The family of Sarabjit Singh, Indian prisoner who succumbed to injuries after being brutally assaulted in a Lahore jail, has demanded that his body be handed over to them and he should be declared a "martyr". The family has set forth demand to the Union Home Ministry including that Sarabjit's body be cremated with full state honours, Raj Kumar Verka, Vice Chairman of National Commission for Scheduled Castes,...
04:10 AM, May 02, 2013
Lahore: A medical team is being constituted to conduct the postmortem examination of Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh who died in a Lahore hospital on Thursday, a media report said. Sarabjit Singh died in Lahore's Jinnah hospital, reported Dawn. His body has been moved to the morgue. Hospital sources said the postmortem examination would be conducted soon and a medical team is being constituted. He suffered serious head injuries...
03:31 AM, May 02, 2013
