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Sarabjit Singh to be hanged on April 1

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Posted online: Sunday , March 16, 2008 at 05:08:55
Updated: Sunday , March 16, 2008 at 05:30:42


Islamabad, March 16: Indian national Sarabjit Singh, condemned to death for his alleged involvement in four bomb blasts in Pakistan in 1990, will be hanged on April 1 in a prison in Lahore.

The death warrant for Sarabjit was received by authorities at Kot Lakhpat jail in Lahore where he has been held for the last 17 years and will be executed on April 1, the Urdu newspaper Daily Express reported.

The mercy petition of Sarabjit, who Pakistan claims is Manjit Singh, was rejected by President Pervez Musharraf on March 3.

Sarabjit's mercy petition was sent to Musharraf along with that of Indian prisoner Kashmir Singh, who was freed after spending 35 years on death row in Pakistani jails.

There was no official confirmation of the development.

Sarabjit was sentenced to death for his alleged involvement in bomb blasts in Lahore and Multan that killed about 14 people. His family denies he was a spy as claimed by Pakistan and insists he accidentally strayed into Pakistani territory.

In his mercy petition sent to Musharraf, Sarabjit had sought his release on the grounds that he was innocent and wrongly implicated.

The petition was rejected by the President after "thorough consideration" as the allegations against him "were proved and he was awarded capital punishment by court", official sources said.

Pakistan's Supreme Court too had rejected Sarabjit's plea for clemency in March 2006.

Following the rejection of Sarabjit's mercy petition by the President, the interior ministry had informed the government of Punjab province to take steps to carry out his death sentence.

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My Mail To all Who follow Prophet Mohd sahabs Principles by Ajay Singh on 20 Mar 2008

he should not be hanged for a crime which he has not commited.the Judiciary of Pakistan is Compelling the Eye witness to Identify him as one who involve in Bomb Blast. Is Islam Permits Any one to Do A Act which Punish an Innocen. How far we can run away from Truth. Hating is something else but hatered shoud not crucify A innocent whether he is a muslim or hindu

So be it by Tapas on 19 Mar 2008

Afzal guru should hang the day after Sarabjit is hanged. Both are spies and this is the end which awaits them.They knew this is how it would be when they both agreed to work for their respective countries.Both would be martyrs in their own countries. So what is there to shout about. After all we are at war.

where is low,where is god by sukhwinder on 19 Mar 2008

this is fals, surbjeet not do this,if any body do this you cant do punnishment twice for purson, many year jail and haged,he is allreday finish his punnishment if he is do this! pak low wht is this?shame on you.

sarabjit by sanatan pandya on 18 Mar 2008

If an Indian straying in to PAK is a crime leading up to a capital punishment then GOI should fish out thousand of Pakistanis who came to India and never returned.If we start hanging them one by one , the exercise will last till the end of the earth.

HERE THIS IS WAY TO BEHAVE LIKE A SUPERPOWER by SACHCHI BOLTA on 18 Mar 2008

WANT TO BECOME A SUPERPOWER? THEN ATTACK THE ENEMY IF INNOCENT SARABJIT IS HANGED. THAT WILL SEND A STRONG MESSAGE TO OUR GREEN MONSTER NEIGHBORS BUT I DOUBT IF INDIA WITH PRO ISLAM UPA GOVT IN POWER CAN DO SUCH DARING THING A NATION CAN NEVER BECOME A CREDIBLE NATION WHEN IT IS RULED BY MICKEY MOUSE SINGH

THE NEW TACTICTS OF MODERN ISLAM by rajababu on 18 Mar 2008

POOR SARABJIT, AN ORDINARY INDIAN CITIZEN STRAYED IN TO PAKISTAN, AND NOW WAITING TO BE HANGED FOR NO CRIME, IT LOOKS LIKE THE PAKEES ARE PUTTING A PRESSURE ON HIM TO CONVERT. SRABJIT YOU WILL BE HERO IN THE EYES OF 1 BILLION INDIANS IF YOU DO NOT CONVERT

DEVIL'S JUSTICE OF THE MILITARY THUGS OF PAKISTAN by A.Mahadevan on 18 Mar 2008

To Syed ZainulabedinThere is only one rule that Indian Independent judiciary follows in dispensing justice without the interference of the Indian government and the Indian political parties including he BJP. You should take back your comment and apply it to your beloved Pakistan, Pakistan Muslim League (Q) … Have you forgotten the vicious and naked interference by Musharraf with the Judiciary of Pakistan. No such thing will ever be allowed to happen by the people of India. Pakistan is still under the control of the Pakistani army under Dictator Musharraf, elected by fraudulent methods, who claims to be a civilian president is a sham and a gross insult to the people of Pakistan. The attack on the Indian parliament by organised by the Pakistani generals and executed by Afzal Guru was an attack on the entire people of India. Free people of India will not tolerate the threat to their security even if Pakistan becomes the mightiest power.Pakistan is revoltingly famous to contrive charges against innocent citizens of India to blackmail and humiliate the entire people of India but India its people have the potency and resolve to face degradation from dying Pakistan.

Shameless NDA by Soman Basu on 17 Mar 2008

It was NDA gvernment which had made the relations with pakistan shamelessly even Musharraf declined to shakehand Prime Minister Vajpayee on his Lahore bus yatra.Shameless Vajpayee invited him to Agra, Shameless Jaswant Singh escorted the Mahmood Azhar to Khandhar, Shameless George Fernandez bowed down infront of Pakistan in kargil when he see the coffins coming to Delhi everyday. Shameless NDA leader Advani visited Pakistan and worshipped at the grave of Jinnah.

There can't be two rules by Syed Zainulabedin on 17 Mar 2008

There should be one standard and I guess Indian governement, political parties such as BJP and stupid commentators doesn't have any standard or moral here. One hand they demanding the execution of Afzal Guru and other hand demanding release of Sarabjit singh a dreaded terrorist convicted by the Pakistan High court and rejection of his mercy appeal by the Pakistani president after due consideration. Let have the courage of acceptence of law of the land.

THE SAVEAGARY OF ELITE CLERICS AND LEADERS OF PAKISTAN by S.Rameswaran on 17 Mar 2008

Pakistan’s leaders and clerics are faithful followers of the devil and their thoughts and actions are influenced by the acumen of the devil and thus their innate personality. Will any one be able to change these inborn repulsive characteristics? This is a ponderous question to to the world to find an answer.

ARE THERE ANY GOD-FEARING HUMANS LEFT IN PAKISTAN WHO WILL PROTEST AGAINST THIS HANGING? by SUBHASH SAMPAT on 17 Mar 2008

Hundreds of people watching the execution of three men in a public square in Tehran clashed with Law Enforcement Forces, denouncing such ‘barbaric practices. The execution scene turned violent as the people made efforts to prevent authorities from hanging the condemned, the official news agency IRNA and the press reported. "Some were shouting slogans asking the victim's families to pardon the accused, who were finally executed", the agency said, adding that as the police attempted to disperse demonstrators by throwing tear gas at them. Reporters and cameramen were also attacked by the police, using tear gas against them and broke their cameras, journalists reported from the scene. "People were openly denouncing discrimination by the authorities in carrying out Islamic laws against the accused saying that while petty thieves and young ones arrested for drinking are hanged or flogged in public, officials, mostly clerics who commits worse crimes do not get same public punishments. Executions by hanging, stoning and flogging are carried out by the thousands in Iran but the practice in public places was ordered by Ayatollah Mahmood Hashemi-Shahroodi, the Iraqi-born Head of the Islamic Judiciary, determined to fight "bad Islamic behaviours, depravity and social corruptions, as drinking, socializing and dancing between men and women.” Do we have any God-fearing men and women left in Pakistan who will protest against the hanging of Sarabjit Singh?

sarabjhits death sentence by Dr,Ramesh kumaran on 17 Mar 2008

sir,This is how pakistan deals with terrorists and weIndian politicians and the electronic mediamake our terrorists a VIP by allowing them to share a seat on the TV channels alongsideleading constitutional experts,social workersand philanthropist and try to bail them outby quoting human rights clauses for them.Its ashame when terrorists like memon brothers whohave been granted bail and Afzal Guru who is still not hanged.Recently a Kerala muslimin gulf who killed a Andhra person in Gulfcountry was spared of a death sentence bypaying 15 lakh rupees to the Andhra personsfamily and this compensation for a deathsentence was mediated by external affairsministry, perhaps Vylar Ravi.So all attempts should me made to commute Sarabjhit Singhs deathsentence.No jehadis involved in Mumbai blastshave been hanged till this date even after eighteen years.Its time that our judiciarygets a good representation in our next budget.In fact the judiciary must have a separate budget.Thanks

Why upa/ Congress is protecting Afzal Guru and not executing him as per court order by KUMAR on 17 Mar 2008

Like Afzal Guru they did not prosecure Masood Azhar and kept him alive for their vote bank.In Hijack drama if Masood Azhar had not been deported/relieved then what could have been happend to all the 100 air-hostages/passengers captured by terrorists. Contrastingly Congress released 4 hardcore terrorists for swapping Mufti Mohd(Home Minister) daughter in a mock up drama by her father. .Remember. They killed the husband of a newly wedded wife, who were returning from the Honeymoon, for fun sake.If Masood was not released , there will be no doubt that all the passengers could have been massacared by the brutal islamic terrorists. In such a situation, will all these political parties apreciate NDA's action? The NDA Government in fact, stopped rail links, Bus links and all trades with the pakistan at that time. Even the Kashmiri separatists (say Muslims)were not allowed by the NDA to visit Pakistan. Hey. Congees, you are no match with the NDA. Just suck the Cong.. Commiees and secularists

why sarabjit should die by shyamal on 17 Mar 2008

why sarabjit should die?Because he is the child of a nation that is so week, because the government that should endeavour to save him is impotent and because he is the real son of soil. And sons of soils die..anyway. Die Sarabjit.. what would you do by living here..

Sarabjit' fate by J.M.Manchanda on 17 Mar 2008

This could be expected after Kashmir Singh claimed soon after returning to India that he was indeed a spy and even claining damages. This was followed by handing over of the body of a Pakistani who died while in jail here for overstaying his visa. The hanging of the accused in attack on Indian Parliament whose mercy petition is still pending was made an election issue in Gujarat by BJP. Modi in fact taunted Sonia that if she didnot have guts to hang him, hand him over to Gujarat. Why doesn't he now save Sarabjit from the gallows? Prisoners are sometimes saved on the basis of reciprocity but we Indians have not played our cards well. Sarabjit may have to pay for the follies of our leaders.

Shame on PM and Madam Sonia by Jatin Patel on 17 Mar 2008

Anybody can be hanged in Pakistan for blamming their politicians incompetencies. I protest in loudest form the incompetency of Manmohansingh and his administration for their failure to bring Sarabjit home.

mercy for sarabjit by nimmi on 17 Mar 2008

Question for Sarabjit sister. How come and whydid encountered the former Pak.FM in the corridorof Hotel in Delhi and how she got the information

Hanging in Islamabad by Saratchandran on 17 Mar 2008

No civilized society could keep the death penalty in it's books.It is archaic and inhuman and it needs to be condemned by any decent society. It may be taken as a cheap solution by an administration in order to keep the cost down in keeping live prisoners!!

Sarabjit Singh to be hanged on April 1 by Narasimhan on 17 Mar 2008

Indian President comes close to giving mercy to the terrorst who planned attacks on our Parliament and Pakistan awards death penalty to our country man while housing Dawood Imrahim and Bin Laden . Is this justice ???

LEAVE DEATH TO GOD: THE STATE HAS NO RIGHT TO TAKE INNOCENT LIVES by SUBHASH SAMPAT on 17 Mar 2008

The death penalty is the ultimate, irreversible denial of human rights. By working towards the abolition of the death penalty worldwide, Amnesty International USA's Death Penalty Abolition Campaign looks to end the cycle of violence created by a system riddled with economic, racial and religious bias and tainted by human error. Please join them in taking action against the death penalty. Around 135 countries have abolished the death penalty in law or practice. On average, in the past decade more than three countries a year have abolished the death penalty for all crimes. Despite international human rights standards, some nations still execute people. Around the world, the death penalty is used as a tool of political repression and a means to forever silence political opponents. In 2006, 91 per cent of all known executions took place in six countries: China, Iran, Pakistan, Iraq, Sudan and the USA. International law prohibits the use of the death penalty for crimes committed by juveniles, yet the execution of child offenders continues in a few countries, particularly Islamic countries like Iran. Since 1973, more than 125 people have been released from death rows throughout USA due to evidence of their wrongful convictions. In January 2000, Governor George Ryan of Illinois declared a moratorium on executions in his state. He said, “I cannot support a system which, in its administration, has proven so fraught with error and has come so close to the ultimate nightmare, the state's taking of innocent life..."

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