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Indian Express
| 11 months ago
The curious case of Sarabjeet and Surjeet raised hopes and later, tempers. Newspapers reported the next day what TV had covered minute-by-minute as soon as it was announced that Sarabjeet Singh will be released from Lahores Kot Lakhpat Jail. Every...
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The Hindustan Times
| 11 months ago
The possible release of Sarabjit Singh could come later this year as part of a general amnesty that the president will announce for death row prisoners ahead of the general elections, Siraj Uddin, a member of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan,...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 11 months ago
Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh's sister, Dalbir Kaur, on Friday thanked the Punjab Government and Bollywood actor Salman Khan for standing by them during this time of crisis by urging the Pakistani Government to let the former return to his...
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Time of India
| 11 months ago
Actor Salman Khan has come forward in seeking support of Pakistani people and the media for Sarabjit Singh's release, who has been on death row in a Lahore jail since 1990. "Requesting the people of Pakistan to support me to help free Sarabjit who...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 11 months ago
The Punjab Assembly today welcomed the release of Surjeet Singh, who returned home yesterday after spending 31 years in a Pakistan jail, and urged the Centre to take steps to secure the release of another resident of the state Sarabjit Singh...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 11 months ago
Wagha border on Thursday was quite the celebration point, with Surjeet Singh's family dancing to drumbeats. After spending more than 30 years behind bars in Pakistan on charges of spying, Surjeet was brought handcuffed to the border from Lahore's Kot...
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Arab News
| 11 months ago
An Indian man freed after spending three decades in a Pakistani prison for spying walked across the border yesterday into India where he was met by family and hordes of reporters...This is happiness, said Surjeet Singh, 69, who was captured in...
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Indian Express
| 11 months ago
Surjeet also claimed that another Indian prisoner on death row in Pakistan, Kirpal Singh, had also converted to Islam and had a new name Mohammed Din. Speaking to mediapersons at the information centre of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee...
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Indian Express
| 11 months ago
Dont take back gift you gave '+google_ads[i].line2 +' '+google_ads[i].line3 + ' Calling it the biggest shock of their lives, the family of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who has been in a Pakistani jail for 22 years, said they suspected larger...
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NewKerala
| 11 months ago
He also welcomed the release of Surjit Singh by the Pakistan Government. He urged Pakistan to release all the prisoners of war (POWs) languishing in their jails. In a press communiqu, he said Pakistan should consider the cases of Sarabjit and POWs...
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NewKerala
| 11 months ago
Krishna here and was assured of all government efforts to obtain his release from a Pakistani prison. Over 200 supporters of Sarabjit, including his close family, gathered at Jantar Mantar to demand his release. Pakistan had done a flip-flop late...
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Voice of America
| 11 months ago
Released Indian prisoner Surjeet Singh (C), accompanied by son Kulwinder Singh (2nd L) and daughter Parwinder Kaur (2nd R), waves after returning to his home country from Pakistan at the Wagah border, June 28, 2012. VOA News June 28, 2012 An Indian...
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The Hindu
| 11 months ago
Freed after spending 31 years in a Pakistani jail on charges of being a spy, Surjeet Singh on Thursday crossed over the Wagah border to an emotional welcome by family and friends. The 69-year-old looked cheerful as he got down from a prison van in...
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NewKerala
| 11 months ago
Krishna had earlier today expressed delight over the release of Indian prisoner Surjeet Singh, and hoped Pakistan would release Sarabjit Singh as well. "I am happy that Surjeet Singh is being released, and I hope that Pakistan will also seriously...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 11 months ago
Pained at Pakistan's flip-flop on Sarabjit Singh, his family today stepped up efforts to get the Indian death-row convict released from jail by seeking the Centre's intervention and accused the neighbouring country of playing a "cruel joke" on them.
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NewKerala
| 11 months ago
Held in Pakistan on spying charges in the early 1980s, Surjeet, 69, was released from Lahore's Kot Lakhpat jail early Thursday and made the road journey to Wagah, on the Pakistan side of the border, before entering his homeland. Smiling and waving to...
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NewKerala
| 11 months ago
He was released from Lahore's Kot Lakhpat jail after over three decades in captivity. He was immediately escorted by Indian border officials to a room for a debriefing. Hordes of camerapersons and journalists jostled with each other to capture the...
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SF Gate
| 11 months ago
The lawyer for an Indian national held prisoner in Pakistan for 27 years on spying charges says his client has been freed. Awais Sheikh says Pakistani authorities handed over Surjeet Singh to Indian officials at the border crossing on the outskirts...
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DAWN
| 11 months ago
Indian spy Surjeet Singh was handed over to Indian authorities at the Wagah border after being imprisoned in Pakistan for 30 years, DawnNews reported. Earlier Surjeet Singh had been shifted from the Kot Lakhpat prison to the Wagah border under heavy...
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Time of India
| 11 months ago
Indian prisoner Surjeet Singh , who was released from Lahore's Kot Lakhpat jail after three decades on Thursday, said that prisoners on both sides of the border should be released. Addressing reporters outside the jail in Punjabi, Surjeet said he had...
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BBC South Asia
| 11 months ago
Surjeet Singh, 69, was released from a prison in Lahore city and is on his way to India, his lawyer Awais Sheikh said...But hours later, Islamabad clarified that it was in fact freeing Surjeet Singh who had been imprisoned on charges of espionage. TV...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 11 months ago
It could only have happened with India and Pakistan: a mix-up in one word swiftly escalating into a full-blown diplomatic row. We refer to the imminent release of alleged Indian spy Surjeet Singh after spending 31 years in a Lahore prison. What...
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Rediff
| 11 months ago
Indian prisoner Surjeet Singh, who has served a life term in Pakistan following his arrest on charges of spying in the 1980s, was on Thursday freed from the Kot Lakhpat jail in Lahore [ Images ] and sent to the Wagah border crossing to be repatriated.
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NewKerala
| 11 months ago
Accompanied by her aunt Dalbir Kaur, she told mediapersons here today that she had never thought that any responsible government can make a mockery to its decisions. She said the Pakistan government had deceived not only her family members but also...
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The Hindu
| 11 months ago
Clearly, it was the media which created the Sarabjit-Surjeet Singh mix-up. A recap of television footage of the Pakistan Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar detailing the case on various Indian channels on Tuesday evening has him name Surjeet...
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The Hindu
| 11 months ago
The Sarabjit/Surjeet Singh mix-up has triggered a round of conspiracy theories about a U-turn by the Pakistan government. But a careful review of television footage shows that it was the media that got it wrong. Farhatullah Babar, media adviser to...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 11 months ago
A day after its volte-face on the release of Sarabjit Singh, Pakistan on Wednesday went on a damage control mode saying there was no move to free the Indian prisoner and denied that there was any pressure from army on the issue. The matter had not...
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Indian Express
| 11 months ago
Officials said one prisoner, who had recently undergone surgery, was unfit to travel and could not join the others as they set off by road for Lahore after being freed from Malir Jail in the port city this morning. The fishermen were freed a day...
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The Economic Times
| 11 months ago
BJP today accused the government of failing to bring death row convict Sarabjit Singh, who is jailed in Pakistan, back home and suggested the Manmohan Singh dispensation adopt an "aggressive and offensive" attitude with the neighbouring country. "...
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NewKerala
| 11 months ago
Sarabjit's sister, Dalbir Kaur, said here today she was hopeful that this stream of happiness would continue to flow and anticipated that her brother would be released shortly. "Everyone was extremely elated, when news broke out that Sarabjit was...
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NewKerala
| 11 months ago
I welcome this decision and further renew our request to the president of Pakistan to release Sarabjit Singh," External Affairs Minister S.M...Sarabjit Singh has been in custody for well over two decades and is serving a death sentence for his...
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The Economic Times
| 11 months ago
Was it a U-turn under pressure from fundamentalist forces or was it a mix-up of identities? These questions remained unanswered today, a day after it was widely reported both in Pakistan and India that death row convict Sarabjit Singh , who has been...
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India Abroad
| 11 months ago
A case of mistaken identity turned a stirring occasion into an international embarrassment for the Pakistan government when the tardy release of an Indian national Surjeet Singh was wrongly reported by Pakistani media as the release of Sarabjit Singh,...
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Indian Express
| 11 months ago
Wed , 27 Jun '12 While the clarification that the Pakistan government is not releasing Sarabjit Singh but another Indian prisoner Surjeet, dampened the spirits of his family, it sparked celebrations at Surjeet's home in Ferozpur. Surjeet's son stated...
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Indian Express
| 11 months ago
Hours after reports emerged yesterday that Pakistan was to release Sarabjit Singh, convicted and sentenced to death in 1990 for alleged involvement in a string of bombings, Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar clarified that authorities were...
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NewKerala
| 11 months ago
Indias request came following a fledgling outcry in India after Islamabad clarified that it was Indian prisoner Surjeet Singh and not Sarabjit who would be released from its jail in Pakistan, hours after media reports circulated claiming Sarabjit...
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Time of India
| 11 months ago
Till late on Tuesday night Sukhpreet Kaur and Poonam Kaur , wife and daughter of Sarabjit Singh were dancing , sharing sweets and receiving congratulations from the family members, friends and people of Bhikhiwind, native village of Sarabjit Singh.
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Indian Express
| 11 months ago
A pall of gloom today descended on Sarabjit's native Bikhiwind village in Punjab where hundreds of villagers had gathered last night to celebrate the news of commutation of his death sentence. However, with Pakistan clarifying last night that the...
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NewKerala
| 11 months ago
Family members and friends, who had only hours earlier distributed sweets, were stunned at the sudden turn of events. Hours after first reports that Pakistan was to free Sarabjit Singh, Islamabad late Tuesday clarified that another Indian prisoner...
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NewKerala
| 11 months ago
I welcome this decision and further renew our request to the president of Pakistan to release Sarabjit Singh who has been in custody for well over two decades and is serving a death sentence," said External Affairs Minister S.M...The appeal came...
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Time of India
| 11 months ago
Within hours of Pakistan reportedly throwing a lifeline to Sarabjit Singh , the alleged Indian spy who was on death row on charges of terrorism, by commuting his sentence, his hopes were dashed as a Pakistani Presidential spokesman "clarified" past...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
In Pakistan , a case of mistaken identity has led to an embarrassing U-turn for administration officials. Reports had circulated regarding the planned pardon and release of an India n national named Sarabjit Singh from prison. The inmate had been...
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DAWN
| 11 months ago
The government in an unusual way late on Tuesday took a u-turn on release of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, convicted of spying charges, said release orders were signed for Surjit Singh and not for Sarabjit Sigh, DawnNews reported. Presidential...
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NewKerala
| 11 months ago
Talking to media persons here after receiving the news, a visibly-elated Dalbir Kaur, the elder sister of Sarabjit Singh, said the news she was getting from Pakistan was that Sarabjit could be freed from Lahore's Kot Lakhpat jail as early as...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 11 months ago
The border village of Sarabjit Singh in Punjab erupted in joy on Tuesday following his imminent release from Pakistan with his family calling it a "relieving" moment and an act of kindness from president Asif Ali Zardari . Emotional scenes were...
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BBC
| 11 months ago
They say the law minister has signed an order for his release. Campaigners say they expect Mr Singh to walk out of jail imminently. He was sentenced for four bomb attacks that killed 14 people in the Lahore and Faisalabad in 1990...The Indian...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 11 months ago
After being on the death row for 20 years over bombing charges, Indian national Sarabjit Singh is being released with Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday today commuting his death sentence. Zardari commuted Sarabjit's death sentence to...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 11 months ago
Punjab's ruling SAD-BJP alliance and opposition Congress on Tuesday welcomed Pakistan's decision to release Indian death row convict Sarbjit Singh saying this "goodwill gesture" would further boost ties between India and Pakistan. In a statement,...
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AP Online
| 11 months ago
A Pakistani official says the president has ordered release of an Indian prisoner on death row for more than 20 years for involvement in bomb attacks in eastern Pakistan.
Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar said Tuesday that...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 11 months ago
Sentence of Sarabjit Singh, Indian citizen and convicted terrorists jailed in Pakistan, was on Tuesday commuted to life imprisonment. The Pakistani law minister has ordered that Singh be released immediately from jail and sent to India. "I don't have...
