Family on mission to save Indian prisoner in Pakistan

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AFP: Family on mission to save Indian prisoner in Pakistan

LAHORE, Pakistan (AFP) — Relatives of an Indian prisoner due to be hanged in Pakistan over a deadly bombing arrived in the rival nation Wednesday on a last-ditch mission to save him from the gallows.

The wife, daughters and sister of Sarabjit Singh said they hoped to meet him in prison and would file an appeal to President Pervez Musharraf asking him to grant clemency to the condemned man.

he should b hangged...my sympathies r with his family..but wht the indian did to our similar prisnors in india tht is disgusting..n we alreday made a mistake by releasing the previous A** h**...

[Plasma]

Hang the little bugger, if we don't we will become the laughing stock in the entire nation of india and the world. If we grant him freedom we will be criticized in india anyways, so i guess we might as well hang him.

We have learned our lesson from the ungrateful Kashmir Singh.

[PakistaniPatriot]

Hmmm... I don't think the prisoner should be hanged. Yes,Indian government hanged Pakistani's probably many times but this a chance for us to be better than India. I also suggest that he shouldn't be freed. He should be a prisoner in Pakistan until his death. He should also be treated somewhat nicely. I mean what can he actually do while he is in prison.

[xeric]

Originally Posted by PakistaniPatriot

Hmmm... I don't think the prisoner should be hanged. Yes,Indian government hanged Pakistani's probably many times but this a chance for us to be better than India. I also suggest that he shouldn't be freed. He should be a prisoner in Pakistan until his death. He should also be treated somewhat nicely. I mean what can he actually do while he is in prison.

we already has freed one in the recentpast n u must have seen how did the indian s responded... when we freed him he had alreday gaing more 50 lbs of wieght but on the otherside our prisnors were starving..
sorry to say but khairat nh bant rahay hum ....
bht hogyee hai bhalai ....

[mujahideen]

I say free all the prisoners. The longer they stay in jail the more government money is wasted on them. And besides they are spies from decades ago, they cant possibly be of any use today.

[xeric]

Originally Posted by mujahideen

I say free all the prisoners. The longer they stay in jail the more government money is wasted on them. And besides they are spies from decades ago, they cant possibly be of any use today.

i thought i was a Sadist.....
nh sir ap agay hain hum sy do hath...

[gnabi]

Originally Posted by mujahideen

I say free all the prisoners. The longer they stay in jail the more government money is wasted on them. And besides they are spies from decades ago, they cant possibly be of any use today.

Spies of decades ago can be freed no problem I feel but can bombers and terrorists be freed too. Remember this man carried out 8 bombings in Lahore killing scores of innocent Pakistanis. Can you be really freeing those people who kill your brothers. I say hang them again and again.

[Imran Khan]

free him because when he go india media make him hero like kashmira singh.we now no need to part in a joke of indian media.hang him ASAP.

[mujahideen]

Originally Posted by gnabi

Spies of decades ago can be freed no problem I feel but can bombers and terrorists be freed too. Remember this man carried out 8 bombings in Lahore killing scores of innocent Pakistanis. Can you be really freeing those people who kill your brothers. I say hang them again and again.

Now believe me I am not defending this man or his acts but for the sake of future generations and for the sake of peace such steps such as freeing prisoners from both must be done. Now as far as the bombing their is still no concrete proof that he is guilty. India does the same with our innocent civilians and in return we also lock up their innocent civilians.

[mujahideen]

Pakistan considers mercy plea for Sarabjit Singh

By Mohsin Raza

LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan said on Thursday it was actively considering an Indian plea for clemency for Sarabjit Singh, an Indian man condemned to death for spying, as his family met him for the first time in 18 years in a Pakistani jail.

President Pervez Musharraf last month rejected a mercy plea from Singh, but deferred his execution until April 30 after a request from the Indian government.

"The issue is under active consideration," Pakistan's Foreign Office spokesman Mohammad Sadiq told a weekly news conference.

"We have received a request from the Indian government ... and a decision will be taken in due course," he added.

His comments came as members of Singh's family including his wife, two daughters, a sister and her husband, visited him in a prison in the eastern city of Lahore.

"We never thought that we would be able to see him after 18 years and in such a situation. It saddened us but at the same time, it was a moment of joy for us," sister Dalbir Kaur later told reporters.

Singh was sentenced to death in 1991 for spying and carrying out four bomb blasts that killed 14 people, but his family said he was innocent and had crossed the border into Pakistan accidentally in 1990 while he was drunk.

"I can assure you my brother had nothing to do with it. We have no links with terrorism," Kaur said when asked about the bombs.

Pakistani officials said Singh was arrested while trying to slip back into India after the bomb blasts.

Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan have fought three wars since the partition of British-ruled India in 1947. They began a peace process in 2004.

But despite better relations, the neighbours remain deeply suspicious of each other.

In March, Pakistan freed an Indian man who spent 35 years on death row in a Pakistani jail on spying charges.

A Pakistani national, who went to India to watch a cricket match in 2005, was arrested and died in an Indian prison in February this year.

Pakistan has asked India to explain the death of the man, whose family said had lost his passport, after being detained and tortured in prison.

(Additional reporting by Augustine Anthony)
© Thomson Reuters 2008 All rights reserved

[ashfaque]

Chor de yaar use..... In last three months I heard atleast 50 news of bombing in Pakistan, each killed average 10-15 people. No one has been caught. Both side Police is impotent, they catch some poor guy and make them victim.

There are many loop holes in this man's case. Even if there is single loose point in a case, death sentence should not be given.

[Imran Khan]

Originally Posted by ashfaque

Chor de yaar use..... In last three months I heard atleast 50 news of bombing in Pakistan, each killed average 10-15 people. No one has been caught. Both side Police is impotent, they catch some poor guy and make them victim.

There are many loop holes in this man's case. Even if there is single loose point in a case, death sentence should not be given.

first time i agree with any indian in this fourm

[ashfaque]

Originally Posted by imran khan

first time i agree with any indian in this fourm

Thanks buddy, I hope some day our and coming generations can kick out people from both side who are using us for their benefits and creating hatred.

[ejaz007]

Unfortunately what Mr. Kashmir Singh said when he landed in India has made the case of this gentleman very difficult. What if he goes back and says he carried out the bombings.
Wish his family success though miracles don't happen every day especially when one country returns a prisoner and gets dead body of his own citizen who by the way was definitely not a terrorist.

[mujahideen]

I personally think he will be freed.