Kashmir Singh released from Lahore Jail & reached India
A family in Punjab whose main breadwinner has been in prison of Pakistani for 35 years was released from jail & will be back on Tuesday 11:00 am. Kashmir Singh was released from the Lahore jail on Monday evening. Kashmir Singh an Indian prisoner, who spent 35 years on a death row in Lahore jail, will be welcome by his wife & three sons at Wagah border on Tuesday.
Kashmir Singh was arrested by Pakistani security agencies in Rawalpindi in 1973 for alleged espionage activities & was sentenced to death by an army court. President Pervez Musharraf pardoned him, after the Pakistani Human Rights Commission pleaded his case.
An official said, “He is 100 per cent fit. He is mentally and physically sound”. It has now emerged that Kashmir Singh converted to Islam during his time in jail & is now known as Mohammed Ibrahim. Kashmir Singh was taken to a five-star hotel in Lahore where he had spend his first night as a free man in over three decades.
The Indian High Commission here issued Singh travel documents & Pakistani authorities gave him a Pakistan visa to enable him to cross the border.
Kashmir Singh reached India on Tuesday. On reaching the Wagah border, Kashmir Singh met with the Indian High Commission officials while bidding adieu to Pakistan, where he was compelled to stay for 35 long years on death row in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Central Jail.
When Kashmir Singh reached the Attari border today, he said, “I have no wishes left. I have got everything now. I thank President Pervez Musharraf & Human Rights Minister Ansar Burney. A new life has begun for me & I am grateful to the people of Pakistan & to the Pakistani government”.
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