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Sadiq Zaman Khattak, a candidate for polls to a parliamentary seat in Karachi, and his son were attacked by gunmen as they were leaving a mosque in Bilal Colony after Friday prayers. The attackers, who were riding a motorcycle, escaped after the shooting. Officials said five...
8. 30 pm: Haq will not be sent back to Pakistan CNN-IBN reports that India will not send back Pakistan prisoner Sanaullah Haq. Haq’s condition, according to reports, is now stable and he is undergoing treatment at Chandigarh’s multi-speciality Post Graduate Institute of Medical Science and Research...
New Delhi: Known for using metaphors to describe complex situations, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid today compared India with legendary boxer Muhammad Ali who tired his adversaries and then with a single left hook, floored them. Maintaining that India has the history that if someone wants...
Mumbai: Bollywood star Salman Khan, who had launched an online petition asking for Sarabjit Singh‘s freedom in 2012, Thursday mourned the death of the Indian death row prisoner in Pakistan. ‘Freedom at last. Hope they give him to his family. We all tried, guess not hard...
Amritsar: The body of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh was tonight brought to Amritsar onboard a special Air India aircraft from Lahore, where he died following a murderous assault in a jail. It was a grim end to the battle waged by his family to secure his...
New Delhi: Indian prisoner Sarabjit’s death in Pakistan was preventable, said former top police officer Kiran Bedi Thursday. ‘Sarabjit’s death inside Pakistan prison was preventable.Need to find out if r Counsulate in Lahore was regularly visiting him?,’ tweeted Bedi after Sarabjit Singh died in a Lahore...
Islamabad: On the campaign trail in Pakistan, candidates boast about their readiness to stand up to Washington and often tout their anti-American credentials. One party leader even claims he would shoot down U.S. drones if he comes to power. So it’s perhaps no surprise that the...
Moscow: External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Monday asked Pakistan to take ‘seriously’ India’s appeal for the release of Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh, comatose in a Lahore hospital after a brutal assault. ‘We have been concerned of getting him (Sarabjit) back to India. We...
They dismissed a report that a medical board was considering a proposal to send Sarabjit abroad. Sarabjit, 49, is being provided the best possible care in a Lahore hospital, and there are no plans to move him, Information Minister Arif Nizami said. Nizami, a key member...
Amritsar: The brutal assault on Sarabjit Singh, who is in ‘deep coma’, was not possible without the involvement of jail authorities in Lahore and Pakistan should take immediate action against the perpetrators of the attack, his family said today. ‘This is not possible without the involvement...
