Indian Terrorist Sarabjit Singh attacked in jail by fellow prisoners

[nikhil25]

re: Indian Terrorist Sarabjit Singh attacked in jail by fellow prisoners

@ehsan

so when your court convicts Kasab it is thoroughly transparent, when Pakistani court convicts a murderer it is a kangaroo court, just because he is an Indian. Nothing new, you are displaying the same arrogance your govt is displaying. The same govt which is crying and taking the high moral ground against terrorism when it emanates from Pakistan but declares a convicted terrorist from india a national hero. Goes to prove he was a spy and Indian govt is now honouring its terrorist hero. This guy was no different than Kasab. Both deserved the death penalty. I dont read Indian media and therefore am not ashamed to call a terrorist a scumbag who should rot in hell. I only read proper media.

now we will see for the first time in recent history a head of state honoring a terrorist.

i am amazed by the conviction with which you seem to believe the sarabjit narrative. let’s not make foolish comparisons here. we all watched kasab committing his crimes on TV. he was given due process of law in an extremely credible fashion. this particular case was a test that the indian judicial system passed with flying colors. i’m sure there are plenty of indian cases you could use as a comparable example but kasab’s is just not one of them.

let me ask you very simply: do you truly believe sarabjit was a terrorist who carried out multiple bombings in pakistan or are you just assuming that if a court said so then it must be true? do you think a trial of an indian “spy” in pakistan in 1990 is more likely to have been credible or more likely to have been non-credible? please answer as ehsan not as a pakistani. to facilitate an honest answer let’s pretend that no indians will read your response.

@phoenixdesi

now this is not fair…you cannot eat the cake and have it…Pakistani courts are kangaroo courts and Indian courts are beckon of freedom…come on

you have to set the line somewhere where you have a reasonable amount of parity and from thereon you can call the shots as to what is right and what is wrong based on your conscience not patriotic feelings …otherwise every debate is nothing but a patriotic bombardment…

i don’t understand…you are saying this in reply to a post in which i clearly stated that i believe such false convictions would have been equally possible in india. further you are lecturing me about patriotism and rationality in response to a post in which i said virtually the same thing to ehsan bhai. my MO has always been dispassionate assessment.

didnt we see not so long ago how afzal guru conviction was carried out in indian courts… the conviction itself said

" The incident, which resulted in heavy casualties, has shaken the entire nation and the collective conscience of the society will be satisfied if the capital punishment is awarded to the offender."

so a guy was hanged to satisfy a nation’s collective conscience even though Afzal Guru did not kill anyone? i recall when i read that ruling i could not think straight for few hours by grief and despair…not only he did not kill anyone but there is no absolute certainty about his role in the events that he is said to have been involved in. Then why did he have to be executed?

but we have to accept the judical verdict and then discuss the issue from thereon.

you wrongly assume that i supported afzal guru’s hanging and am inclined to defend it. you can read my previous comments on afzal guru. i did not support the death penalty for him and believe the sentence was not justified by the evidence. it’s clear he was not an innocent man and there was plenty of credible evidence to confirm his involvement but only in the capacity of a logistics man not a militant mastermind.

we don’t have to “accept the judicial verdict” blindly. i would be shocked if you were to honestly say you believe sarabjit’s trial and conviction were credible. a thousand non-credible indian convictions won’t change the reality of sarabjit’s. i have no problem criticizing an indian court ruling. if a pakistani court ruled that sarabjit singh is actually an alien from mars i’m sure many pakistanis would accept it as gospel. same goes for indians.