Lahore: Indian prisoner in Pakistan Sarabjit Singh died of a cardiac arrest at Lahore's Jinnah hospital on Thursday after batting for life for nearly a week. The announcement from Pakistan came late in the night. Demands are now growing for his body to be brought back to India. Sources say that the body may be brought back by Thursday afternoon. While his body has been shifted to a mortuary, Pakistan...
07:58 AM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: Many political parties on Thursday condemned the death of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh in a Lahore hospital and demanded the government should pressurise Pakistan to hand over the body to his family. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said "the country was angered" with Sarabjit's death and demanded that the government takes some strict action against Pakistan. "This is condemnable. This is a shameful incident. This is a heinous...
07:30 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
New Delhi: Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh was convicted of alleged involvement in a string of bomb attacks in Punjab province that killed 14 people in 1990 and spent about 22 years in Pakistani prisons. His mercy petitions were rejected by the courts and former President Pervez Musharraf. The previous Pakistan Peoples Party-led government put off Sarabjit's execution for an indefinite period in 2008. Sarabjit's family says he was...
02:52 AM, May 02, 2013
Lahore/Islamabad: 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. His body has been shifted to the mortuary for autopsy. "I received a call from the doctor on duty (at Jinnah Hospital) at 1 am (1:30 IST) informing me that Sarabjit is no more," Mahmood...
02:30 AM, May 02, 2013
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11:29 PM, May 01, 2013
As Sarabjit Singh's condition continues to be serious, the Indian government on Wednesday made an official request to have him moved to a third country for further treatment. ...
10:38 PM, May 01, 2013
Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh slipped into a coma in a Pakistani hospital, days after being beaten up in jail there. ...
10:33 PM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: The family of Sarabjit Singh, who is lying in coma in a Lahore hospital after an attack in a Pakistan jail, will meet Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in New Delhi on Thursday to seek his better treatment and bringing him back home. Official sources said Shinde has given time to the family, including Sarbjit's sister Dalbir, to hear their grievances. The family, which crossed over to India...
08:41 PM, May 01, 2013
Islamabad: Pakistan on Wednesday agreed to daily consular access to Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh who is hospitalised in Lahore following a brutal attack by his inmates in Kot Lakhpat jail. The daily consular access comes into effect from Wednesday, 6.00 pm. Indian officials on Wednesday went to see Sarabjit and said there was no change in his condition. ...
08:35 PM, May 01, 2013
Sarabjit Singh's sister Dalbir Kaur returned to India on Wednesday. ...
08:04 PM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: Concerned over the condition of Sarabjit Singh, who has slipped into "non-reversible coma", India on Wednesday strongly asked Pakistan to release him immediately for best available treatment, saying this was not the time for invoking "legal and bureaucratic reasons". "We are concerned at the condition of Sarabjit Singh indicated by reports made available by doctors treating him in Jinnah Hospital (in Lahore). Our High Commissioner has met the...
06:09 PM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: India on Wednesday asked Pakistan to release death row convict Sarabjit Singh so that he could benefit from the best possible treatment available in India or alternatively, shift him to a third country on humanitarian and sympathetic grounds. The MEA issued a statement on the matter saying, "Our High Commissioner has met the Pakistan Foreign Secretary and urged the Government of Pakistan to immediately release Shri Sarabjit Singh...
04:22 PM, May 01, 2013
Even as doctors treating Sarabjit in Lahore's Jinnah Hospital said his chances of survival were 'slim', Dalbir Kaur said he can still get up and speak if the right treatment is given to him. ...
01:37 PM, May 01, 2013
Lahore: Indian national Sarabjit Singh, severely injured in a brutal assault last week, has slipped into a "non-reversible" coma and doctors in a hospital in Lahore are struggling to save his life, official sources said on Wednesday. The deterioration in Sarabjit's condition could lead to "brain death", the sources said. His measurements on the Glasgow Coma Scale, which indicates the levels of consciousness and damage to a person's central nervous...
01:18 PM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh's sister Dalbir Kaur, who returned to India from Pakistan on Wednesday, demanded Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's resignation and said she will not eat till her brother returns home. "When my brother returns home, I will eat only then. I want to apologise to his kids that I wasn't able to bring Sarabjit back," Dalbir Kaur said. Lashing out at the Indian government for not...
01:12 PM, May 01, 2013
Lahore: Reports about the suspension of several Pakistani jail officials after the brutal assault on Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh last week have turned out to be an eyewash as authorities are yet to take action against anyone in Kot Lakhpat Jail. Immediately after the assault on Sarabjit by other prisoners on Friday, officials had told the media that three or four prison officials, including the assistant superintendent, had...
11:59 AM, May 01, 2013
Wagah Border: Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh's family has returned to India from Pakistan to decide on the future course of action. Sarabjit's sister Dalbir Kaur has said the family will try to meet UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi soon. There have been hints that 49-year-old Sarabjit is brain dead and is being sustained by life support mechanisms. Dalbir said that she needs to consult with people back in India about the...
11:47 AM, May 01, 2013
Lahore: Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh's lawyer will move the Lahore High Court seeking permission for Indian doctors to examine him in Pakistan. He said the Pakistani authorities have not been responding to the family's queries on Sarabjit's health and so they want to move court asking for Indian doctors to join the Pakistani team of doctors treating Sarabjit. "The doctors from India should be allowed to come here and join...
10:40 AM, May 01, 2013
