Lahore : A week after Indian national Sarabjit Singh was fatally attacked within a Pakistani jail, authorities on Friday suspended three senior prison officials over the incident. The Home Secretary of Punjab province suspended the three officials from service for alleged negligence that led to the brutal attack on Sarabjit within Kot Lakhpat Jail. The […]

Amritsar : Sarabjit Singh, an Indian death row prisoner who died in Pakistan on Thursday a week after a brutal prison attack, will be accorded state funeral in his Punjab hometown of Bhikhiwind on Friday afternoon. Sarabjit’s body was brought to India from Pakistan last night. The body was brought to Amritsar from Lahore onboard […]

New Delhi : A “deeply saddened” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday condoled the passing way of Sarabjit Singh and termed him a brave son of India. “I am deeply saddened by the passing away of Sarabjit Singh. He was a brave son of India who bore his tribulations with valiant fortitude,” the prime minister said […]

Lahore : Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who was admitted to a Lahore hospital after being savagely attacked in jail, died Thursday, a media report said. Sarabjit Singh died in Lahore’s Jinnah Hospital, reported Geo News. The head of the medical panel of the hospital was quoted as saying that Sarabjit succumbed to injuries […]

Lahore : The distraught family of Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who was brutally assaulted in a Lahore jail last week, is expected to return home on Wednesday after doctors reportedly indicated that he was “clinically dead”. Raj Kumar Verka, Vice Chairman of the National Commission for the Scheduled Castes, said in Amritsar on […]

Lahore : Pakistani officials today dismissed a report that a medical board was considering a proposal to send abroad Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh – comatose in a Lahore hospital after a brutal assault – for treatment. Lahore : The four-member medical board headed by Jinnah Hospital chief executive Mahmood Shaukat conducted a routine […]

Lahore : Sarabjit Singh, an Indian man who is on death row in Pakistan, continues to be in coma in a hospital in Lahore after he was attacked by two fellow prisoners with bricks and a knife at the Kot Lakhpat Jail in the city. Doctors attending to him at Lahore’s Jinnah Hospital have informed […]

Islamabad: Hours after reports emerged that Pakistan was to free Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, the presidential spokesman clarified that authorities had taken steps for the release of another Indian prisoner named Surjeet Singh, and not Sarabjit. Earlier, Pakistani media had reported that president Asif Ali Zardari had commuted the death sentence for Sarabjit Singh. As […]

Islamabad : 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 today commuting his death sentence. Zardari commuted Sarabjit’s death sentence to life term which he has already completed having been in jail beyond 14 years. Therefore he is […]