Source: The Times of India
AMRITSAR: Even as India on Friday expressed gratitude to Pakistan for putting off hanging of Sarabjit Singh, Pakistan is likely to hand over the body of Laxman, an Indian prisoner who died in Landhi jail of Karachi to India. On March 10, India had handed over the body of Pakistani national […]

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Source: Reuters
By Mubasher Bukhari
LAHORE - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has rejected the plea for mercy of an Indian convicted of spying and the man will be hanged on April 1, a senior prison officer in Lahore said on Sunday.
Sarabjit Singh was sentenced to death in 1991 for spying and carrying out four bomb blasts that […]

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Source: AFP
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (AFP) — Islamist militants killed a tribesman after accusing him of working as a US spy in a lawless stronghold of Al-Qaeda and Taliban insurgents bordering Afghanistan, officials said Friday.
Rebels shot and then slit the throat of the 30-year-old man in the latest in a series of executions in Pakistan’s troubled tribal […]

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Source: The Hindu
Nirupama Subramanian
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Pakistani media: Mehmood was tortured in jail
“He was not provided consular access”
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Wednesday said it was “deeply shocked and angered” at the death of a Pakistani prisoner in India, and asked for an explanation of the charges under which he was held and the circumstances of his death.
The body of […]

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Source: The Hindu
Chandigarh:Kashmir Singh, who was freed from Pakistani jail after 35 years, on Friday admitted that he was an Indian spy and did his best to serve the country, but deplored that successive governments at the Centre did nothing for his family.
“After my arrest in 1974, the successive governments did nothing for my family. […]

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