Lahore High Court Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry on Tuesday called for reply from the federal government to a petition seeking early execution of Indian terrorist Sarabjit Singh.
The petition was filed by Ilamuddin Ghazi advocate in the backdrop of overtures being made to get the conviction of Sarabijit pardoned by President Asif Ali Zardari. The petitioner has mentioned the recent visit of Singh’s sister Dilbeer Kaur who also met her brother in the Kot Lakhpat Jail. The visit of Kaur is a part of the plan to make ground for his release by attracting sympathies at the public level.
The petitioner contended that under the Islamic jurisprudence, no ruler or anyone else but blood relations and legal heirs of the victim have right to pardon a killer. As such no question of pardon by the President to Singh, whose review petition as well as mercy petition already stand dismissed.
tariff challenged: A petition was filed in the Lahore High Court questioning the recently increased electricity tariff as well as free power supply to different public departments including seven federal and 22 provincial ministries.
Sister of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian national on death row in Pakistan, yesterday met him in prison, his daughter has claimed. Dalbir Kaur is coming back on July 5 from Pakistan, Singh’s daughter Swapandeep said.
According to Swapandeep, the two exchanged presents during their meeting. An emotional Singh also sent wishes for his daughter’s upcoming birthday. He gave greeting cards to Kaur for his two daughters in India.
Kaur also met another Indian inmate Kirpal Singh in a Pakistani Jail, Swapandeep told PTI Bhasha.
Singh is an Indian convicted and sentenced to death by a court in Pakistan in 1991 for his alleged involvement in terrorists attacks in Pakistan.
Dalbir Kaur, the sister of Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, visited the famous Data Darbar shrine in this eastern Pakistani city and prayed for the release of her brother. Kaur offered a traditional ‘chadar’ at the ‘mazar’ of renowned saint Hazrat Ali Hajweri yesterday, considered the patron saint of Lahore.
She later told the media that she had prayed for the early release of her brother.
Sarabjit has been on death row since he was convicted for alleged involvement in four bomb blasts in 1990 that killed 14 people.
The verdict was upheld by the Lahore High Court and the Supreme Court.
His family insists he was wrongly convicted for the bombings.
Though Sarabjit was set to be hanged in 2008, Pakistani authorities put off his execution indefinitely after Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani intervened in the matter.
Kaur arrived in Pakistan on June 6 to meet Sarabjit and lobby the Pakistan government for his release.
She met her brother at Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore on Thursday.
The petition was filed by Ilamuddin Ghazi advocate in the backdrop of overtures being made to get the conviction of Sarabijit pardoned by President Asif Ali Zardari. The petitioner has mentioned the recent visit of Singh’s sister Dilbeer Kaur who also met her brother in the Kot Lakhpat Jail. The visit of Kaur is a part of the plan to make ground for his release by attracting sympathies at the public level. The petitioner contended that under the Islamic jurisprudence, no ruler or anyone else but blood relations and legal heirs of the victim have right to pardon a killer. As such no question of pardon by the President to Singh, whose review petition as well as mercy petition already stand dismissed.
tariff challenged: A petition was filed in the Lahore High Court questioning the recently increased electricity tariff as well as free power supply to different public departments including seven federal and 22 provincial ministries.
Sister of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian national on death row in Pakistan, yesterday met him in prison, his daughter has claimed. Dalbir Kaur is coming back on July 5 from Pakistan, Singh’s daughter Swapandeep said.
According to Swapandeep, the two exchanged presents during their meeting. An emotional Singh also sent wishes for his daughter’s upcoming birthday. He gave greeting cards to Kaur for his two daughters in India.
Kaur also met another Indian inmate Kirpal Singh in a Pakistani Jail, Swapandeep told PTI Bhasha.
Singh is an Indian convicted and sentenced to death by a court in Pakistan in 1991 for his alleged involvement in terrorists attacks in Pakistan.
Dalbir Kaur, the sister of Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, visited the famous Data Darbar shrine in this eastern Pakistani city and prayed for the release of her brother. Kaur offered a traditional ‘chadar’ at the ‘mazar’ of renowned saint Hazrat Ali Hajweri yesterday, considered the patron saint of Lahore.
She later told the media that she had prayed for the early release of her brother.
Sarabjit has been on death row since he was convicted for alleged involvement in four bomb blasts in 1990 that killed 14 people.
The verdict was upheld by the Lahore High Court and the Supreme Court.
His family insists he was wrongly convicted for the bombings.
Though Sarabjit was set to be hanged in 2008, Pakistani authorities put off his execution indefinitely after Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani intervened in the matter.
Kaur arrived in Pakistan on June 6 to meet Sarabjit and lobby the Pakistan government for his release.
She met her brother at Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore on Thursday.
