Faridkot: Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh's killing in a Lahore jail has left the family of another prisoner of war in Pakistan, a worried lot. Surjit Singh, a BSF sepoy who is a prisoner of war for the past 42 years in Pakistan, remains untraceable and his wife Angrez Kaur and son Amrik Singh continue to live between hope and despair. About a year back, Amrik sought Pakistan Human Rights activist...
01:19 AM, May 08, 2013
New Delhi: Injured Pakistan prisoner Sanaullah Haq's condition has deteriorated further and he may have contracted jaundice, doctors at Chandigarh's PGI hospital said. Sanaullah Haq was attacked by his Indian inmate in a Jammu jail last week. He is in deep coma. Meanwhile, his family met him at the hospital on Tuesday. Two of his family members had arrived at the Wagah border after being granted Indian visas. The Pakistani...
04:33 PM, May 07, 2013
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
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
Islamabad: The Indian High Commission here on Monday granted visas for visiting India to two relatives of Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Haq, critically injured in a scuffle with another inmate in a Jammu jail. The visa applications of Sanaullah's brother-in-law and cousin were received at the Indian High Commission at 7.30 pm (local time), official sources told reporters. The applications would be processed and the visas would be issued expeditiously, sources...
10:30 PM, May 06, 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
New Delhi: Twenty out of 36 Indian prisoners lodged in Lahore's infamous Kot Lakhpat Jail, where Sarabjit Singh was fatally attacked, have lost their mental balance and not been taken to any hospital for proper medical care, an India-Pakistan judicial panel has found. The India-Pakistan Judicial Committee on Prisoners, which visited Pakistani jails in Karachi, Rawalpindi and Lahore last week, has found that 20 prisoners in Kot Lakhpat jail, two...
06:35 PM, May 05, 2013
Chandigarh: Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Haq, who was attacked by his fellow Indian inmate in a Jammu jail on Friday, is in a deep coma, said doctors, adding that the 52-year-old is critical and on ventilator support. The Indian convict, who had allegedly attacked Haq, was sent to 7 days of police custody on Saturday. "He is on ventilator and in a deep coma. He continues to be critically sick," said...
08:43 AM, May 05, 2013
Jammu: Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Saturday said, India promptly responded after the attack on a Pakistani prisoner in a Jammu jail, while Pakistan took no action after the attack on Sarabjit Singh. "It (attack on the Pakistani prisoner by another inmate in Jammu) should be condemned in same way (that of Sarabjit Singh)," Azad told reporters in Gulabgarh area of Kishtwar district during his day-long tour to...
09:15 PM, May 04, 2013
Does Indian media place national interest above human rights? G Ananthapadmanabhan, chief executive of Amnesty International India, believes it does. At a lecture in Delhi ...
07:40 PM, May 04, 2013
Srinagar: The hardline Hurriyat Conference on Saturday demanded strengthening of security apparatus inside Indian and Pakistani jails to stop murderous assaults on inmates. "It is the responsibility of both countries to ensure safety of prisoners in their jails. We appeal for strengthening of security in the jails across the border and an immediate end to murderous assaults by prisoners on each other," Hurriyat chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani told reporters...
07:30 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. 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
New Delhi: As Pakistan prisoner Sanaullah Haq, who was attacked in a Jammu jail by his fellow Indian inmate on Friday, continues to be treated in a Chandigarh hospital, Islamabad has asked Delhi to ensure a thorough investigation into the incident. Pakistan's caretaker Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso called on his Indian counterpart to personally look into the incident and ensure a thorough investigation. "We have also called for...
08:14 AM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: National Democratic Alliance (NDA) MPs on Friday met President Pranab Mukherjee over Chinese incursion in Ladakh. The MPs also took up with the president the manner in which the Sarabjit Singh issue was handled by the government. The delegation, led by senior leader and NDA working chairperson LK Advani, also submitted a memorandum seeking the president's intervention on both the issues. They demanded that Mukherjee discuss these issues...
05:12 AM, May 04, 2013
Islamabad: Pakistan's caretaker Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso on Friday called on his Indian counterpart to personally look into an attack on a Pakistani prisoner in a jail in Jammu and ensure a thorough investigation. Sanaullah, a Pakistani national serving a life sentence was attacked in the prison in Jammu and Kashmir, a day after Indian national Sarabjit Singh succumbed to injuries sustained in a brutal assault within a...
01:08 AM, May 04, 2013
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