Krishna assures Sarabjit’s family he will take up issue
August 17th, 2012 - 8:33 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna has assured the family of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian national on death row in Pakistan, that he would take up ... Read more...
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India calls for Sarabjit’s release, upset at Pakistan’s U-turn (Roundup)
June 27th, 2012 - 8:43 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi/Islamabad, June 27 (IANS) Pakistan's midnight U-turn on the release of Sarabjit Singh, suspected to have been done under pressure from its powerful military-ISI establishment, has not gone ... Read more...
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Government should explain Sarabjit confusion: BJP
June 27th, 2012 - 8:18 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 27 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday asked the government should explain how Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna announced that Pakistan would release death row prisoner ... Read more...
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India renews request for Sarabjit’s release, awaits clear picture (Second Lead)
June 27th, 2012 - 6:04 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi/Islamabad, June 27 (IANS) Pakistan's midnight U-turn on the release of Sarabjit Singh, suspected to have been orchestrated by its powerful military establishment, has not gone down well ... Read more...
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Pakistan frees 311 Indian prisoners
June 27th, 2012 - 4:02 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, June 27 (IANS) Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh's fate may have plunged into further uncertainity, but India still has some reason to cheer. Pakistan Wednesday freed 311 Indian ... Read more...
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Soni appeals for Sarabjit’s release
June 27th, 2012 - 3:50 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, June 27 (IANS) Pakistan should look at the case of death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh sensitively and compassionately, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni said Wednesday."I have come ... Read more...
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India presses for Sarabjit’s release, awaits confirmation (Lead)
June 27th, 2012 - 1:33 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 27 (IANS) India Wednesday renewed its request to Pakistan to release death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh after a midnight volte-face by Islamabad and said it was ... Read more...
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Free Sarabjit, Krishna ‘requests’ Pakistan
June 27th, 2012 - 11:50 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 27 (IANS) India Wednesday welcomed the release of Surjeet Singh from a Pakistani jail and renewed its "request" to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari to also free ... Read more...
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Sri Lanka’s former army chief vows to topple government
June 14th, 2012 - 6:47 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, June 14 (IANS) Sri Lanka's former army chief Sarath Fonseka said Thursday that he aimed to topple the government and create a new political culture, ruling out any possibility ... Read more...
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My life is under threat: Sri Lankan ex-army chief
June 10th, 2012 - 2:36 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, June 10 (IANS) Former Sri Lankan army chief Sarath Fonseka, who was recently released from prison, Sunday said his life is under threat and he needs to be provided ... Read more...
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Former Sri Lankan army chief to be tried for mutiny
June 7th, 2012 - 7:33 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, June 7 (IANS) Former Sri Lankan army chief Sarath Fonseka, who was released from jail a few weeks ago, and his personal assistant will be tried for harbouring army ... Read more...
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Sri Lanka’s ex-army chief released from jail
May 21st, 2012 - 7:27 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, May 21 (IANS) Former Sri Lankan Army chief Sarath Fonseka was formally freed from prison Monday following a presidential pardon.Large crowds gathered outside the prison to greet Fonseka, who ... Read more...
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Rajapaksa gets nod to free jailed ex-army chief
May 17th, 2012 - 11:27 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, May 17 (IANS) The Sri Lankan government has approved the release of jailed former army chief Sarath Fonseka, an official said Thursday.President Mahinda Rajapaksa has obtained the approval of ... Read more...
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Zardari remembers slain minorities minister
March 6th, 2012 - 12:28 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, March 6 (IANS) Shahbaz Bhatti, a minister who was gunned down last year, spent his life fighting for the cause of the downtrodden and marginalised sections of society particularly ... Read more...
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International manhunt on for Pakistani minister’s killers
December 26th, 2011 - 12:25 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Dec 26 (IANS) An international manhunt has been launched for two killers of Pakistani minorities minister Shahbaz Bhatti who had been seeking to reform the country's controvesial blasphemy law.Interior ... Read more...
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Fates of Sarabjit, Chishty figure in Rajya Sabha (Lead)
August 11th, 2011 - 8:53 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) The fates of an Indian prisoner in Pakistan and a Pakistani jailed in India were raised in the Rajya Sabha Thursday as the upper ... Read more...
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India asks Pakistan to release Sarabjit
August 11th, 2011 - 5:40 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) India Thursday asked Pakistan to free Sarabjit Singh, an Indian national on death row who was convicted for alleged involvement in multiple blasts in ... Read more...
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Timeline of the Purulia arms drop case
June 30th, 2011 - 11:37 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) The Danish High Court in Copenhagen Thursday rejected a plea for the extradition of Niels Holck alias Kim Davy to India in the 1995 Purulia ... Read more...
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Sarabjit to meet sister — after 21 years
June 16th, 2011 - 12:43 pm ICT by IANS
Amritsar, June 16 (IANS) For a long time to come, the memory of this Thursday will remain with Sarabjit Singh, an Indian prisoner lodged in a Pakistan jail since 1990, ... Read more...
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Pakistan court seeks reply on likely pardon for Sarabjit
June 15th, 2011 - 7:02 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, June 15 (IANS) A Pakistani court has sought reply within three weeks from the government on a petition "seeking judicial restraint" on the possible presidential pardon to Indian ... Read more...
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CPI-M for judicial probe into Purulia arms drop
May 5th, 2011 - 5:26 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Thursday demanded a judicial probe into the Purulia arms drop of 1985 and the extradition from Denmark of the ... Read more...
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CBI reply in Purulia arms drop case raises questions: Biman Bose
May 1st, 2011 - 3:47 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, April 30 (IANS) West Bengal's Left Front chairman Biman Bose Saturday said the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) clarification in the Purulia arms drop case raised critical questions."CBI ... Read more...
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BJP, Left answerable for Purulia arms drop case: Congress
April 29th, 2011 - 11:55 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) The Congress Friday contended that the Left and the BJP were answerable for the handling of the 1995 Purulia arms drop case, which has resurfaced ... Read more...
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No Indian government role in Purulia arms drop: CBI
April 29th, 2011 - 10:10 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Friday dismissed allegations that an arms drop in West Bengal's Purulia district in 1995 was an operation carried ... Read more...
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Purulia arms drop an Indian operation: Kim Davy
April 29th, 2011 - 12:53 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) In a sensational allegation, Kim Davy, an accused in the 1995 Purulia arms drop case, has told a TV channel that the "Indian government ... Read more...
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Thrice-convicted officer reinstated in Pakistan’s FIA
April 5th, 2011 - 5:13 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, April 5(ANI): A Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) officer, who is Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik's sidekick, has not only been reinstated for the fourth time after being convicted and dismissed ... Read more...
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Bhatti killers enemies of Pakistan: PM Gilani
March 4th, 2011 - 2:47 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, March 4 (IANS) The murder of Pakistan's minorities minister Shahbaz Bhatti, a Christian, was another attempt by enemies of the state to defame the country and the philosophy ... Read more...
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A Pakistani law that felled a minister and a governor
March 3rd, 2011 - 6:46 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, March 3 (IANS) Pakistan's blasphemy law, which carries a death sentence for the person who insults the Prophet, has caused the killing of a minister who was a Christian ... Read more...
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Indian christians condemn killing of Pakistan minister
March 2nd, 2011 - 10:09 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) Christians across India have condemned the murder of Pakistan's minister for minorities Shahbaz Bhatti, a Christian, who was gunned down in Islamabad Wednesday by unidentified ... Read more...
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Pakistani minister, a Christian, assassinated (Fourth Lead)
March 2nd, 2011 - 6:23 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, March 2 (IANS) Pakistan's Federal Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti, a Christian, was shot dead Wednesday as left his mother's house in the heart of Islamabad. It was ... Read more...
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Pakistan minister gunned down in Islamabad (Third Lead)
March 2nd, 2011 - 4:00 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, March 2 (IANS) Pakistan's Federal Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti, a Christian, was shot dead Wednesday when his car pulled out of his home here, making it the second ... Read more...
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Sherry Rehman withdraws bill for blasphemy law amendment
February 3rd, 2011 - 7:30 am ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Feb 3 (IANS) Former cabinet minister and member of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Sherry Rehman has withdrawn a bill tabled in the national assembly proposing amendments in the ... Read more...
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US historian denies tampering with Lincoln’s last pardon
January 27th, 2011 - 12:50 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan.27 (ANI): An American historian has denied tampering with one of President Abraham Lincoln's last official acts before he was assassinated on April 14, 1965.The document in question relates to ... Read more...
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Was Abe Lincoln’s ‘pardon to death row inmate before assassination’ claim doctored?
January 25th, 2011 - 3:32 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 25 (ANI): An amateur US historian has been accused of doctoring a key document of former US President Abraham Lincoln for his own benefit by changing the date of an ... Read more...
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Georgian President pardons 407 prisoners on New Year’s eve
January 1st, 2011 - 4:46 pm ICT by ANI
Atlanta, Jan 1 (ANI): Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has reportedly pardoned 407 prisoners on New Year's eve.According to Xinhua, out of the 407 prisoners who were pardoned, 339 were to leave jail ... Read more...
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