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
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
Pakistani High Commissioner Salman Bashir on Friday requested India to provide immediate consular access to Sanaullah Haq who was critically injured following an attack. ...
07:11 PM, May 03, 2013
Thiruvananthapuram: A total of 6,569 Indian nationals are currently lodged in prisons of 67 foreign countries, including 254 in Pakistan, according to information accessed by a Kerala-based RTI activist from the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). The Arab countries topped the list with Saudi Arabia (1691), Kuwait (1161) and UAE (1012), according to the information provided by the MEA on April 22 to lawyer and RTI activist DB Binu in...
02:49 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
Bikhiwind: The body of Sarabjit Singh, who died after a brutal attack by inmates in a Pakistani jail, was on Wednesday night handed over to his family after the post-mortem. A contingent of Punjab Police led by SSP Tarn-Taran Raj Jeet Singh handed over Sarabjit's body to his family at Bikhiwind village for a state funeral on Friday. Earlier, Sarabjit's body was airlifted to his village and sent to Government...
03:00 AM, May 03, 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. ...
11:48 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. ...
11:31 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
