**According to Sherry rehman,Pakistan is set to free Sarabjeet singh within in week,in twitter when she was taliking to a Indian newsreporter
on the other hand Rehman malik deny all this…Sarabjeet is in kotlakpat jail,he was convicted for the bombings in Multan n in Lahore in 1990 in wich
14ppl were killed…
Is this ok for Pakistan to free such a person who is responsible for killings?
Is it ok for Pakistan to free Sarabjeet in the name of Aman ki asha or for better relations with India?
Or can we demand Ajmal qassab in return?
**Sarabjit Singh to be released within week: Sherry Rehman
**Washington: Pakistan Ambassador to the United States said on Saturday that Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh would be released within a week.**While chatting with an Indian journalist, Rehman tweeted on micro-bogging social website that bilateral relations between India and Pakistan would be back on track after Singh’s release.However, Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik denied any such news.
Singh, imprisoned since Oct 1985 after being handed down death sentence under the Army Act, had submitted his mercy petition to the army chief but he rejected it, directing to forward it to President of Pakistan.
The president downed Singh’s death sentence to life term under a general amnesty granted to all condemned prisoners.
Since December, 1988, he is being treated as a lifer.
Singh’s sentence expired on Oct 30, 2010, and in the light of GHQ directions his mercy petition was referred to the president but there was no progress on the plea, a jail officer said.
**Contradictory statements have been pouring in over the release of Indian spy Sarabjit Singh. **
Indian national Sarabjit Singh is being imprisoned in Kot Lakhpat jail for more than two decades. He was arrested for his alleged involvement in four bomb attacks in Lahore and Multan in 1990. The court awarded Sarabjit with death penalty under the army act in 1991.
Pakistani ambassador in US Sherry Rehman said that Sarabjit will be released in the coming week while Interior Minister Rehman Malik denied all such reports.Conversing with an Indian journalist on a social media website, Sherry Rehman tweeted that Sarabjit will be released in a week. She further said that the release will pave new ways for Indo-Pak ties.Earlier this month, former Federal Minister Ansar Burney also appealed to President Zardari to convert the death sentence of Sarabjeet Singh into life imprisonment on humanitarian grounds.
Come in our country, kill several people just out of sheer hatred and then stay in out jails for some time ( if you are from PPP+MQM+ANP, you don't need to be in jail) and then we will release you!!!
anyway, i don't know if the above news is true or not but this has been talked alot, and somebody high in the govt just would do anything to please India!!!
The much expected visa liberalisation accord between Pakistan and India could not be signed at the second round of Interior/Home Secretaries meetings held under the resumed bilateral talks at Islamabad on May 24-25. Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik attributed the failure to ink the agreement to the need to sort out certain important points at the political level and issued a call for his Indian counterpart P. Chidambaram to pay a visit to Pakistan to finalise the visa liberalisation arrangement. The Indian side, however, claiming that it had come to Islamabad “fully prepared”, blamed procedural issues and Mr Malik’s desire to sign it at the political level, between him and Mr Chidambaram. New Delhi is, apparently, reluctant to send Mr Chidambaram to Pakistan to, as India’s Home Ministry is supposed to have told the media, bring home the point that it wanted Pakistan to act against the perpetrators of Mumbai terror attack before the Minister could plan a visit to Pakistan.
The Indian attitude, thus, makes it obvious that without resolution of contentious issues, a genuine movement towards the normalisation of relations is hardly likely. After all, the idea behind relaxing restrictions on the issue of visas is to provide an opportunity for increased people-to-people contacts to pave the way for a normalisation of relations. But, it is difficult to conceive of a real equation that ensures harmonious neighbourly relations in the presence of serious allegations against each other. On the one side are Mumbai incident and charges against Hafiz Saeed; on the other, the destabilisation of Balochistan and the Samjhota Express. Then, there are unsettled disputes haunting the bilateral ties and to cap them all is the core issue of Kashmir, a case of India’s betrayal of trust by reneging on solemn commitments. The dispute also carries grave emotional and humanitarian overtones for the people of Pakistan. A recent report on human rights issued by the US State Department sharply criticises India for massive human rights violations in the Valley, pointing a finger at the Indian army for involvement in extra-judicial killings. New Delhi’s ridiculous offer of $10 million in exchange for the custody of Hafiz Saeed raises the question whether it would respond positively to Islamabad’s demand for the custody of Lt-Col Shrikant Purohit, the main accused in the Samjhota Express, for a similar amount.
Some other reports in the media also reflect the sharp differences and tension that continue to bedevil Pakistan-India ties. For instance, there is the Indian Army Chief’s statement that it would not hand over Siachen to Pakistan and that a terrorist network exists across the border in Pakistan. Strangely, against the backdrop of such an Indian attitude, Ambassador Sherry Rehman, while talking to Indian media, reveals that Sarabjit Singh, the Indian spy held in Pakistan, would be sent back to his country within a week. Whatever the pressure, our national interests demand that we must not let off a spy who was out to harm us. Pak-India ties | The Nation
kaafi confused report hai, aik taref they are saying they are releasing him, on the other hand, Ansar burney has appealed to President to change his death sentence into life impraisonment:halo:maajra kia hai?
