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Another Pakistani prisoner, Abdul Jabbar, was reportedly attacked in a jail in New Delhi on Tuesday and is in critical condition, Express News reported.
Two Indian prisoners, Ranjeet and Ajay Kumar, allegedly attacked Jabbar’s face and neck with a blade, leaving him injured.
He was shifted to the jail infirmary to apparently keep the incident out of the media limelight so as to not incite more tit-for-tat attacks.
Jabbar was arrested after his visit visa to India expired and he was charged with committing espionage for Pakistan. He has so far spent nine years imprisoned in Tihar Jail.
Earlier on Thursday, Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Haq succumbed to his injuries after being attacked by fellow inmates in a Srinagar jail last week. Hi body was flown back to Pakistan on Thursday evening.
Family distressed
Listening to news of attack on their loved one, family members of the Pakistani prisoner in Tihar Jail were shocked and demanded President Asif Ali Zardari to use diplomatic sources to ensure his treatment in Pakistan.
Talking to The Express Tribune, family members of Abdul Jabbar, who hails from Lahore, said they had not received any official information about his health with television informing them about the attack. Riaz Ahmed, Jabbar’s brother, lives in Dharampura area of Lahore. He told The Express Tribune that their mother, a heart patient, had lost her senses after hearing the news about Jabbar.
Ahmed added that Indian law enforcing agencies arrested his 50 year old brother in 2009 on an FIR registered which named a suspect as Syed Amir Ali. Ahmed says Jabbar was subsequently implicated him by labelling him with a fake name.
Aftab Ahmed, a close relative of Jabbar, told The Express Tribune that they are unable to contact him as they were not given any number to contact him.
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Indian takes their revenge atlast...
Please understand state prisioners are ' guests'. Mess with them and you mess with diplomatic relation ships. Increase security to state prisoners on both sides of the border .
Just move all Pakistani prisoners to one jail in India to avoid more incidences of attacks. Same should be done for Indians in Pakistani prisons. Prisoners other then those arrested under serious charges can be exchanged.
Shift all prisoners to their respective countries, there will be no headache for both government.
@Fahmeed Idrees:
Enlightened! Unless equal reciprocation, other side would not understand the situation.
Look @ Mumbai, if the same Mumbai had happend in Pakistan < from any indian group not taliban > pakistan would have understood the severeness., See how it is playing, past from 2008 on this case with hide and seek game.,
Politically, such steps require to make sure that, eye for an eyes would work, sorry for the victims who are used for this, but no option!,
if you remember the day when 122 people perished in siachin your chief called for permanent withdrawal of army from this site., but when happened same previously with Indian soldiers, no action.
The trust deficit is sooooo big that it looks like Black hole in the universe.,
@jerseybb:
do you know the proverb "An Eye for an Eye makes the whole world blind" but with little modification "An Eye for Eyes makes the victim blind ensures that initial offender to think if he set fire on neighbor, then his house is also under stake with the same fire.,
Justice service with 1:2 ratio., this is what pakistan need to understand with its awaam.
for your reference India Shining, forget in this case, we cannot act every time as wise as you think we need to reciprocate with the same stick which you have used.,
every day is not sunday my dear, if you think so then you are a fool.
"Two wrongs do not make one right". How many people should be killed in the name of politics? Such barbaric and coward actions are act against humanity, democracy and religion. There should be a complete end to such violence on both sides of the boarder. Mutual agreements and legislation should be in place for protection of prisoners.
"Two wrongs do not make one right". How many people should be killed in the name of politics? Such barbaric and coward actions are act against humanity, democracy and religion. Their should be a complete end to such violence on both sides of the boarder. Mutual agreements and legislation should be in place for protection of prisoners.
There is nothing new; referring to the history of wars, whenever there is abnormal rise in exchange of tortured dead bodies of prisoners between neighboring enemies as priority, then soon a full-fledged war erupt!!
@Pak Citizen: playing with fire....yes yes...LOL
@jerseybb: @Pak Citizen: India will shine, why are you expecting flowers when you killed Chamel Singh and Sarabjit singh in your jail?
Unlike scrupulous West,why both India and Pakistan couldn't have the moral high ground to fight for and save Sarabhjit or Sanaullah is because there are hundreds of Sarabhjits and Sanaullahs suffering in corrupt to the core India and Pakistan
india shining once again...
Where is Pakistani Response now. India is playing with Fire.