Captain Saurabh Kalia was also reportedly tortured and mutilated in Pakistan captivity. ...
07:44 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Given the brutal attack Sarabjit Singh came under and the injuries he sustained, doctors at Lahore's Jinnah Hospital say that he has a very bleak chances of leading a productive life. ...
07:14 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Lahore/Islamabad: Pakistan on Monday said that the "best possible care" is being given to Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh, comatose in a Lahore hospital after a brutal assault, and that there are no plans to move him. They dismissed a report that a medical board was considering a proposal to send Sarabjit abroad. Sarabjit, 49, is being provided the best possible care in a Lahore hospital, and there are...
04:54 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Lahore: While Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh's family demands that he be brought to India for treatment, a medical panel set up by the Pakistani government has ruled that he will continue to receive treatment in Pakistan. The panel says it is difficult to move Sarabjit as he has received severe head injuries. Two officials from the Indian High Commission were at the Jinnah hospital to meet his doctors. Meanwhile as...
01:24 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Lahore: As Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh's family demands that he be brought back to India for treatment, Pakistan has reportedly formed a panel of experts to decide whether he should be sent abroad for treatment. Sarabjit Singh's health has shown no signs of improvement. Doctors treating him in Lahore have said his chances of survival are slim. His family, who is by his side, has been asking the Indian government...
11:44 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Islamabad: The attack on Sarabjit Singh could have serious implications for Pakistan-India ties, said a Pakistani daily, adding that the fate of the Indian death row prisoner was caught in the problematic relationship between the two countries. Sarabjit was admitted to a Lahore hospital after a murderous attack on him in Kot Lakhpat jail April 26. He is in coma. His family has arrived in Pakistan on a special visa...
11:13 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Lahore: Injured Indian prisoner in Pakistan Sarabjit Singh's health has shown no signs of improvement. Doctors treating him in Lahore have said his chances of survival are slim. His family, who is by his side, is asking the Indian government to bring him back home for treatment after he was brutally attacked in jail. While that may or may not happen, Pakistan has relented and given consular access to him....
08:10 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Bangalore: All efforts are being made to exert pressure on Pakistan to ensure best medical treatment for Sarabjit Singh, Union Minister Manish Tewari said on Sunday. "All of us are extremely concerned about the condition of Sarabjit," Tewari told reporters, rejecting criticism of opposition parties that the attack on Singh in a Pakistani jail is a reflection of failure of India's foreign policy. Tewari said no civilised world would tolerate...
02:44 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Lahore: The main accused in the brutal attack on Indian national Sarabjit Singh in a Pakistani jail have told investigators that the attackers planned to kill him to take revenge for bombings he was accused of carrying out in Lahore. According to a preliminary report prepared by Deputy Inspector General of Police (Prisons) Malik Mubashir, the accused Amer Aftab and Mudassar, both death row prisoners said they hated Sarabjit because...
12:53 PM, Apr 28, 2013
New Delhi/Lahore: With Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh continuing to be in a coma and battling for life in state-run Jinnah Hospital in Lahore, India has offered medical assistance to Pakistan in treating him and has said Delhi will use the incident as an additional ground to push hard to get him back to his homeland. "The best we can, we will. Right now there is very little we...
08:00 AM, Apr 28, 2013
Jammu: Family of Chamel Singh, an Indian prisoner who died in a Pakistani jail three months ago, on Saturday blamed the Centre for the attack on Sarabjit Singh, saying had the government taken a tough stand at that time such an incident would not have recurred. "We want the Indian government to see the conspiracy in attacks on Indian prisoners - we should safeguard the lives of Indian prisoners in...
10:53 PM, Apr 27, 2013
Sarabjit Singh was brutally assaulted inside Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail in Pakistan on Friday. ...
08:12 PM, Apr 27, 2013
Lahore: A day after Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh was brutally assaulted inside Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail, his family has been been granted visa to visit him in hospital. Four members of Sarabjit Singh's family have been granted visa by the Pakistan High Commission to meet the Indian prisoner. The Pakistani High Commission in Delhi also said that it will extend all possible help to facilitate their travel to Pakistan. Sarabjit's...
03:13 PM, Apr 27, 2013
Lahore: A day after Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh was thrashed inside a Lahore jail in Pakistan, he continues to be critical and in ICU. Two prisoners have been charged and two officials suspended. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has condemned the attack and called it a 'very sad incident'. Police on Saturday registered a case of attempted murder against two prisoners for brutally assaulting Indian national Sarabjit Singh, who was in...
01:30 PM, Apr 27, 2013
Lahore: Police on Saturday registered a case of attempted murder against two prisoners for brutally assaulting Indian national Sarabjit Singh, who was in a "deep coma" in a hospital in Lahore. Official sources said the FIR against prisoners Amer Aftab and Mudassar was registered following a complaint from Assistant Superintendent Ishtiaq Ahmed Gill of Kot Lakhpath Jail. The two men were booked under sections 324 (attempted murder) and 334 (causing...
11:31 AM, Apr 27, 2013
Lahore: The death row convict, Sarabjit Singh, who was attacked in a Lahore jail in Pakistan, is in "deep coma" and no surgery can be performed till his condition stabilises, said official sources. He has been put on ventilator. The doctors are carrying out trauma control and are awaiting stabilisation in his condition before conducting further tests. "Doctors attending to Sarabjit Singh informed the Indian officials that he is in...
08:15 AM, Apr 27, 2013
Lahore: Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh had spoken of a threat to his life from a fellow prisoner after the execution in India of Afzal Guru but Pakistani authorities failed to provide him adequate security, his lawyer said on Friday. "Sarabjit told me and a CID (Crime Investigation Department) official after the execution of Afzal Guru that a prisoner in Kot Lakhpat Jail had issued death threats. I brought...
01:45 AM, Apr 27, 2013
Indian prisoner on death row Sarabjit Singh was reportedly attacked by fellow jail inmates in Lahore and has been admitted to hospital after the attack inside Kot Lakhpat Jail. Sarabjit has reportedly received head injuries in the attack and is in critical condition. ...
11:40 PM, Apr 26, 2013
Human rights activist Ansar Burney condemned the attack and said, "We had some clue Sarabjit Singh would be attacked. Sarabjit must be sent back to India." ...
09:59 PM, Apr 26, 2013
New Delhi: The BJP on Friday reacted strongly to the attack on Indian national Sarabjit Singh, currently on death row in a Lahore jail, demanding that India should take strong note of it and "warn" Pakistan. "Pakistani establishment has been hijacked by terrorists. Pakistan government runs at their whims and mercy. The attack on Sarabjit is unfortunate. It is more unfortunate since his sister had written to the government warning...
09:39 PM, Apr 26, 2013
