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09:27am, 4th Mar 2008

musharaf agrees to hand over Kashmir to India

rikshawalla

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Quedos to Mr Burney!!!! More men like him are needed on both sides of the border.

No doubt there are still hundreds, if not thousands more men lying in prisons in both india and pakistan under similar circumstances.

An Indian man released from a Pakistani prison after spending 35 years on death row has been reunited with his family in India.

Kashmir Singh, sentenced to death for spying in 1973, was released on Monday.

He was discovered by Ansar Burney, a social worker who tracks people lost in Pakistan's jail system.

Hundreds of servicemen and civilians were imprisoned by India and Pakistan during hostilities between the two sides in 1965 and 1971.

Hundreds of people, including Mr Singh's wife and son, gathered at the Wagah border in the northern Indian state of Punjab to greet him.

He was re-united with his family after basic medical tests and checks at the border.

"I am very, very happy and will escort him back to gurdwara [Sikh temple] to pray," his wife, Paramjeet Singh said.

Spies

The garlanded Mr Singh left for his village without speaking to the waiting media at the border before leaving for his village.

Mr Burney discovered Mr Singh on a recent trip to a jail in Lahore and persuaded Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf to revoke his death sentence and order his release.

Mr Singh was a former policeman who had become a trader in electronic goods.

Paramjit Kaur - wife of Kashmir Singh - holds a family photograph of the couple

India's missing POWs

Speaking on Monday after his release from jail, he said: "I feel better. I am happy."

Mr Singh was arrested in the city of Rawalpindi in 1973 and convicted of spying.

Pakistan and India frequently arrest each other's citizens, often accusing them of straying across the border - some are treated as spies.

Mr Burney is currently the government's caretaker minister for human rights.

'Hell on Earth'

Mr Burney said last week that Mr Singh had been held in a condemned prisoner's cell for most of the time since his conviction, and had become mentally ill.

He said that he was first informed about the case several years ago by members of the Indian community in London.

But he was unable to locate Mr Singh, despite visiting more than 20 jails across the country in connection with his campaign for prison reforms and prisoners' rights.

The minister said Mr Singh had not received a single visitor or seen the open sky and, like other condemned prisoners, was locked in an overcrowded cell for more than 23 hours a day, in conditions which the minister described as "hell on Earth".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7276323.stm

11:47am, 4th Mar 2008	musharaf agrees to hand over Kashmir to India
platinum786 [Profile - Diary] Msg no: 37198	lol.... u nearly killed me.

09:55pm, 4th Mar 2008	musharaf agrees to hand over Kashmir to India
k4sh [Profile - Diary] Msg no: 37200	lol nice one (the title and the story).

11:59am, 5th Mar 2008	musharaf agrees to hand over Kashmir to India
dr_AZ [Profile - Diary] Msg no: 37201	why that son ova....what.. false alarm....damn now i have to go pack up my rifle....u really shouldnt scare a brother like that

12:59pm, 6th Mar 2008

musharaf agrees to hand over Kashmir to India

johnny5

[Profile - Diary]
Msg no: 37204

Im surprised no one has mentioned this, but according to GEO, Kashmir Singh converted to Islam whilst in prison and changed his name to Ibrahim.

Would be interesting to see the reaction of his family.

Even when they showed imaged of him on the BBC website, I got the impression, from the shape of his beard, he looked more Muslim than Sikh.

LAHORE: Indian national Kashmir Singh has been set free after 35 years from the Koth Lakhpat jail here on Monday after President Pervez Musharraf pardoned him.

Kashmir Singh seemed happy when he came out of Koth Lakhpat jail. He has embraced Islam and named Ibrahim during his long detention behind bars.

Kashmir Singh was garlanded when he emerged out of the jail with Caretaker Human Rights Minister Ansar Burney. He will stay in a five star hotel tonight and Ansar Burney will take Kashmir Singh to the Wagah border tomorrow.

Paramjit Kaur, wife of Kashmir Singh along with others family members will receive her husband whom he married at the age of 16 and who has been waiting for Kashmir Singh for the last 35 years. She said people told her that Kashmir was dead but she did not lose hope.

http://www.geo.tv/home/14652.htm

04:26pm, 6th Mar 2008	musharaf agrees to hand over Kashmir to India
Sid20VT [Profile - Diary] Msg no: 37205	Dont believe the Geo story... loads of he/she converted to Islam stories... so what. But when I saw that title... I was more than shocked!! Was thinking that fucking bastard and to think I been praising him and how come none of the media has reported this happening... LOL.

09:15am, 7th Mar 2008	musharaf agrees to hand over Kashmir to India
labh_janjua [Profile - Diary] Msg no: 37206	Funny how some people think that during the 35 years in a pakistani prison this guy would have the freedom to practice his faith. Especially considering the following from the article:- "'Hell on Earth' Mr Burney said last week that Mr Singh had been held in a condemned prisoner's cell for most of the time since his conviction, and had become mentally ill"

04:59pm, 7th Mar 2008	musharaf agrees to hand over Kashmir to India
platinum786 [Profile - Diary] Msg no: 37207	Bollocks was he mental... http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200803071759.htm He admitted he was a spy as soon as he got back to India... LOL Lucky so and so. Should have hung him when we had the chance.

11:05am, 8th Mar 2008	musharaf agrees to hand over Kashmir to India
inders [Profile - Diary] Msg no: 37208	Why Platinum ? You think he's gonna go back to Pakistan as a spy now ?

05:50pm, 8th Mar 2008	musharaf agrees to hand over Kashmir to India
platinum786 [Profile - Diary] Msg no: 37209	Well he might still have vital information... .. I don't want to sound like a cunt, and i know when it comes to India-Pakistan matters to the neutral eye i often do... ... but spies are there to cause harm, i don't see why release a person or even imprison them. If a person is there and is a national security risk, take them out. It's like failed scuicide bombers, I'd have them shot.

09:34pm, 8th Mar 2008	musharaf agrees to hand over Kashmir to India
sufi [Profile - Diary] Msg no: 37211	platty bro they say every cloud has a silver linning india too in response is releasing a pakistani prisnor in response to this unfortunatley they had managed to torture him to death first sos cant provide a link...

09:42pm, 8th Mar 2008	musharaf agrees to hand over Kashmir to India
inders [Profile - Diary] Msg no: 37212	I can't figure out whether sufi's latest offering is a priori or a posteriori knowledge.

10:56pm, 8th Mar 2008

musharaf agrees to hand over Kashmir to India

[Profile - Diary]
Msg no: 37213

Bollocks was he mental...

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200803071759.htm

He admitted he was a spy as soon as he got back to India... LOL

Lucky so and so.

Should have hung him when we had the chance.

dude he was convicted as a spy, and pardoned as a spy so there was never any doubt (from the Pakistani side anyway) that he was actually a spy so i dont know why your surprised.

And anyway going by his waist size, it doesnt look like he was mistreated to the levels some are claiming.

11:46pm, 9th Mar 2008	musharaf agrees to hand over Kashmir to India
sufi [Profile - Diary] Msg no: 37216	priori or a posteriori knowledge anyway going by his waist size, it doesnt look like he was mistreated to the levels some are claiming.

11:57pm, 9th Mar 2008

musharaf agrees to hand over Kashmir to India

sufi

[Profile - Diary]
Msg no: 37217

maybe i am mistaken anyway i hope my earlier posting was posterior knowledge un fortunatley fo the individual concened and his family it isnt

what i suppose is more important and what is important is the work ansar burney trust is carrying out in pakistan and the rest of the world

i know we have the greatest humanist in the world since mother teresa died in the form of abdur sattar edhi but this man is doing some good work too

http://www.ansarburney.com/index.html

11:57pm, 9th Mar 2008

musharaf agrees to hand over Kashmir to India

sufi

[Profile - Diary]
Msg no: 37218

12:12am, 10th Mar 2008	musharaf agrees to hand over Kashmir to India
sufi [Profile - Diary] Msg no: 37220	http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C03%5C08%5Cstory_8-3-2008_pg1_2 just cos i cant be asked to find a link to somat it dose not mean it did not happen read bottom of link prisnor is was called khalid india pakistan both torture each others prisnors should be stopped simple as ....

09:40am, 23rd Mar 2008	musharaf agrees to hand over Kashmir to India
dr_az [Profile - Diary] Msg no: 37267	"india pakistan both torture each others prisnors should be stopped simple as ...." you would have a better chance of finding a jewish female physical education teacher in a madrassa

11:31am, 19th Apr 2008	musharaf agrees to hand over Kashmir to India
khanz [Profile - Diary] Msg no: 37533	phew,im glad it was not what the title indicated..take the armys out of kashmir n let the people live..

12:27pm, 19th Apr 2008	musharaf agrees to hand over Kashmir to India
inders [Profile - Diary] Msg no: 37534	when reading this thread before i missed this gem by platinum786 'he might still have vital information' Geez he's been in a pit for 35 years, his vital information is that flares are gonna be big and the beatles aren't getting along so good.

02:38pm, 19th Apr 2008	musharaf agrees to hand over Kashmir to India
dr_AZ [Profile - Diary] Msg no: 37535	lol id hate to be the guy to let him know elvis is dead

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