Lahore: A Pakistani judge investigating the murder of Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh has appealed to Indian nationals having information about the matter to file written submissions with relevant documents within seven days.
Justice Syed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi of the Lahore High Court is investigating the death of Sarabjit following a brutal assault by prisoners within Kot Lakhpat Jail.
"The Indians are required to get themselves registered with one-man inquiry tribunal at official URL http://mail.punjab.gov.pk at the email address:
registrartribunals@lhc.gov.pk," said Riaz Ahmed, the personal staff officer of the judge....
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01:12 PM, May 18, 2013
Gurdaspur: India's forgotten spies are back in focus after the tragic death of Indian prisoner Sarbajit Singh, but Delhi never accepted that he was a spy. Recruited from India's border villages by intelligence agencies, spies often spend decades in Pakistani jails, but are hardly ever acknowledged. Former spy Surjit Singh, who spent 31 years in Pakistani jails, says he was lucky not to suffer Sarabjit's fate. "I was lucky to...
12:19 PM, May 13, 2013
The tragic deaths of Sarabjit Singh and Sanaullah Haq after they were attacked inside jail premises in Pakistan and India have highlighted the plight of hundreds of Indian and Pakistani prisoners lodged in jails across the border. Can a joint India-Pakistan mechanism help better the situation? Can the human rights organisations pressure the governments of both the countries to take note of this? Zohra Yusuf, Founder, Chairperson, Human Rights Commission...
06:22 PM, May 09, 2013
Indian prisoner Sarabjeet Singh's sister Dalbir Kaur has condemned the attack on Sanaullah Haq and asked the governments on both sides to ensure safety of prisoners. ...
01:47 PM, May 09, 2013
Chandigarh: As Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Haq continues to battle for life in a hospital here, his family on Tuesday said he should be sent back to his country along with them. Ranjay's relatives - brother-in-law Mohammed Sehzaad and nephew Mohammed Asif - spent around five minutes with their relative admitted in the ICU of Advanced Trauma Centre at Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), after reaching the hospital...
10:18 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
New Delhi: A prominent hospital chain on Monday offered to provide free treatment to Sarabjit Singh, who is battling for his life in a Lahore hospital, in case India manages to bring him back to the country. Col Harinder Singh Chahal, Regional Director (North), Fortis Healthcare, told PTI that the Mohali based multi-speciality unit of Fortis Group is ready to treat Sarabjit free of cost if the Indian government would...
08:28 PM, Apr 29, 2013
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
New Delhi: At least 30 inmates of the Tihar Jail here were selected by 15 companies in the fourth campus placement drive conducted by jail authorities on Tuesday. The inmates were selected after they were interviewed by companies at Tihar's Jail No 3. "All the 30 inmates with good character, who would be released in the next six months, were selected by 15 companies after they fulfilled certain criteria laid...
05:44 AM, Apr 10, 2013
