Dal Khalsa labels Sarabjit an Indian spy
CHANDIGARH: For the first time Sikh organization Dal Khalsa has termed Sarabjit Singh an Indian spy. “The BJP leadership should explain on what grounds are they advocating the case of Indian spy Sarbjit Singh,” said party spokesperson Kanwarpal Singh in Amritsar on Sunday. Kanwarpal was reacting to the statement of BJP leader Shanta Kumar in which he had said their party would oppose commutation of Dr.Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar’s death sentence into life term, in case a resolution seeking it is tabled in the Punjab assembly.
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.
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