He should be pardoned, his fault was to cross border other alligations are fabricated by police..

Justice is expected from the honorable president as we can see that the case is clearly of mistaken identity. Why should a human suffer because of age old meaningless rivalry between two countries. Peace is we all need badly!

requesting him to free him as a human being we r under controlled of god, if we cant give life to any then how can we take life of any. Allah/god/bhagwan never allow to kill human beings..hoping u will hear silent voice of Allah to pardon sarabjit singh..

Free him

The Honorable President & Government officials of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan,
I am sure the release of this innocent man would go a long way in healing the relations between the two countries, will help improve the image of Pakistan and its people and would definitely not go unnoticed by the Republic of India.
Please give the benefit of doubt to this man.
Punishing an innocent is more of a sin than letting go a sinner!!!

please think and act humane in this case…we have not got any rights to kill a creation of god! please keep aside religious and Indian hatred and. think him as a man who for his no sin has lost his entire life in prison!

Governments of both pakistan and India should ensure that people like Sarabjit, Dr. Khalil Chisti and thousand other prisoners who have been in jails for so many years, should not be victims to Indo-pak differences.

Honorable President,
Pakistan.
carry out the judicial proceedings in a valid manner and justice is expected in such a case where the clear scenario is presented of a case of mistaken identity.

Please free him..He is innocent..

Free Sarabjit, how can pakistani authorities live on with this lie in their hearts that he is a criminal?

Please Free him !! Allah is witness to all deeds

Dear President Zardari
Please free Sarabjit Singh .

Let Justice takes it ’s place.

Please Free him !! Allah is witness to all deeds

Free Him Please …

To: Mr Asif Ali Zardari, The Honourable President of Pakistan

We the undersigned, petition the honourable President of Pakistan to grant mercy to Mr Sarabjit Singh on humanitarian grounds; to release and return Mr Sarabjit Singh to his wife, daughters and sister in India.

Mr Sarabjit Singh has already spent over 22 years in Kot Lakhpat Prison in Lahore.

We hope the honourable President of Pakistan will view this request sympathetically.

To the Honorable President of Pakistan,

On behalf of humanitarian grounds we request you,kindly release Mr Sarabjit Singh.Mr Sarabjit Singh has already spent over 22 years in Kot Lakhpat Prison in Lahore.
It will be a landmark for Pakistan too and will show Pakistan as justice loving nation on World Atlas.
We hope the honourable President of Pakistan will view this request sympathetically.

Free Sarabjit singh ………..

Please Free Sarabjit singh ………..

Pls free Sarabjit Singh on humanitarian grounds…

i am shocked after i ready the whole story of MR.Sarabjit singh. it’s clear that he is innocent. Pakistan Govt. is sick and i dont know why they are targeting the normal citizens. if there is any anger then sort it out with our govt or fight on the border but dont do these kinds of sameful acts. cant you see his family ? more than 20 years without doing anything, its rediculous. its a shame .
its a clear case of hatred.
please release him and send him back to his family please..

Ram:
Mr Sarabit Singh is innocent & there is no point in granting with peek punishment unless evidenced. All our indians Hopes that justice is alive in pakisthan.. free our brother..

Sincerely Request You to Please Release Him as it makes no sense to punish or spoil a life of a person who is completely innocent and a case of mistaken identity. And it’s not only his life, but there are a lot of lives associated with him who need him with them.

I think you should realese Sarabjeet because he is not a RAW agent but a simple farmer……

Please…..

Please free Mr. Sarabjit singh. All freedom lovers in the world and supporters of human rights , please join hands to support his release.

IndianChirps (twitter)

Please Free..

Free Him if he not Guilty he already spend 22 years …i think Pakistan should release all POW and India do the Same…Atleast they can see their families again

Free Sarabjit singh ………..

Please release him.

free him..

free him…

we released your criminals who had killed our people brutally with no mercy but you can’t even able to release our innocent former this shows the difference between India and Pakistan shame to all of you.

Please release him.

Please release him

release him asap. its for human justice

Please free Mr. Sarabjit singh

Dear Sir,

Kindly please release this innocent !!!

Mr. President,

Show some mercy to this poor man who served almost all his life in pakistan prison.please release him at the earliest.

Please release Sarabjit Singh and show humanity.His family and kids are waiting for him. He had already served longer than a life sentence. Please do justice.

please release Sarabjit Singh and show humanity.

Plz release him ;-(

If he had done anything deserving what he has already faced no one would have applied for his mercy release…he is an innocent farmer who just strayed in the Pak border area,of course thats a mistake but it was un intentional.
Above all religions and borders there is one thing called humanity which we all have in heart…so Mr Zardari Saheb please do justice and release him.Think about his kids who are waiting since so many years to see thier dad…please

Please release Him!

A True Islami will always Forgive.

Please show mercy to this Soul.

You shouldn’t hold him in prison any longer. He had already served longer than a life sentence. In his case the guilt has not been proven and drawing comparisons with Ajmal Kasab is senseless. Sarabjit was probably caught even before Ajmal Kasab was born.
In short, if neighbourly relations have any significance to you then Sarabjit Singh must be released. The Indian public is very tolerant… But no one has ever tested the limits of our tolerance. Do not even try to do that

Please free Mr. Sarabjeet Singh. He does not deserve to be in jail for something which is untrue.

He has spent 22 years in jail already. Hasn’t he suffered enough. Pardon him and let him be with his loved ones at least in his old age. Be human and end Sarabjit’s suffering.

Please release Sarabjit, he is innocent. He was never guilty. Please hear you soul and please please please release him.

Hello President please release Sarabjit Singh and show humanity.

Hello Pakistan Gov,

If Sarabjit Singh was proven guilty and enough evidence was provided in the court then we would never write to you. The act in 1990 was cruel and not human and I agree that you should punish the person who did the bombings. But here we do not have enough evidence for Sarabjit singh and no fair trial was taken anytime in the past. He has spent 22 years in jail for something which he is not responsible for. I request you to please release him on human grounds and help the two countries build good ties between them.
Such act will only spoil the relationship between the two countries.
I hope you are as human as us.
Thankyou

You have already taken away the golden period of his life. Now this the least you can do. Please release Mr.Sarabhjit Singh.

The guy has already spent 22 years in prison, what more do you expect someone to go through?

Please release Sarabjit Singh….We Indians are waiting for him….

a true being would not discriminate one being because of their origin.

It’s my humble request to free Sarabjit Singh as he is innocent and according to Allah’s Message ” You can not punish an innocent person”. Please look at the plight of his wife, daughters and his entire family. Please please release him.

God bless you.

He should be freed. God Save Him

plz free him. 22 yrs of confinement without proper evidence. he wouldn’t even recognize his own daughters if ever he gets to see them again.

Don’t make him suffer for something he did not do. Please release sarabjit singh

Dear Sir,
I urge you to kindly free Shri Sarabjit Singh.

A request from your & his Indian Friend,
Arun Sachdev.

Hi is not guilty so Pakistan should release him.

He is not caught red handed. And he has spent over 19 years in prison. So he should be released. Thank you sir.

Peace is the thing which we all are expecting from Pakistan !! and hope our relations will get strong in future

Please, Mr. President
Show some mercy. That guy is innocent and has not ccommited any crime.
All Indians are requesting you to please free Mr. Sarabhjit Singh, as he is an innocent Indian.

I feel amazed that his family wasn’t sure about the whereabouts of Mr. Sarabjit for almost 9 months until they received a letter from him. Doesn’t Pakistani Government or Indian Government inform the other when someone’s captivated by them? If yes, then why did it take almost 9 months for his family to know about his whereabouts? And when the life imprisonment for an individual in Pakistan is 14 years why is he been captivated for 21 years now? On what basis is he still been captivated? If there is anything that Indian Government can still do on this. We Indians would love to see that.
As of now Ajmal Kasab’s death would seriously have an impact on the release of Mr. Sarabjit Singh is what news says, but I don’t think that should make any difference, and if Pakistani Government is even thinking of something like that I would like to say they rather be happy that Ajmal was in Indian custody for 4 long years even after being caught red handed and even after his conviction to the crime. This “Hang to Death” should have been done latest by 2 years after his captivity, but Indian Government was so generous enough to study the case thoroughly confirm on things and then hang him to death. In Kasab’s case all his identity was checked and any actions taken were intimidated to the Pakistani Government. But that’s not the case of Sarabjit. We would like Justice for Sarabjit at the earliest. If all our petitions here has any value we would love to see all the captive Indians in Pakistani jails to be freed at the earliest and make both the countries proud and be an example to the rest of the world.

I firstly feel pity about the India Government’s inability for over 21 years not being able to help an individual who’s kept captive for the mistake which he never committed. And I appreciate the Indian-Origin British lawyer Ms. Jas Uppal for her continuing fight and campaigns for the release of Mr. Sarabjit Singh. It’s high time that something be done about this individual who is already suffered enough all through his lifetime, to be freed and be back with his family. Not sure how much each India’s comment and support would help in this regards, but with all due respect to all behind this to release Mr. Sarabjit and with all the best of hopes and wishes.

Dear Pak President,

PLease release sarabjit singh. As we(including you) know he is not terrorist.

Why should it take more than two decades to do justice .there is no proof or witness that sarabjeet is a terrorist..n because u r not able to gather evidence y punish ann innocent and his family indiscriminately? He has already suffered more than 20years … his wife has been living the life of a widow and his daughters that of orphans for no mistake of theirs or his.. pls its hi time u showed mercy on that innocent man and release him in humanitarian grounds…

Dear Mr. President
Please go thorugh once again entire case rationaly..as he is an inncoent person…who is just a victim of wrong identity.
Please do justice..

Please free Sarabjit Singh, he’s not guilty of the accused charges. Please Pakistan Government.

Show some mercy on that poor guy!

Pls free him

plz free him

He is innocent , please free him, its been 21 years.

free sarabjit

please release him….he is innocent…

He is farmer. Not a terrorist. Only mistake he did is got drunk n cross the border. And he already paid 21 yrs of his life. Let him enjoy what freedom is.

Release him, no one deserves to be imprisoned for that long for a crime that they didn’t commit. Give him a fair trial to the very least. Show some humanity.

please don’t play with innocent life for power and dirty politics. release mr singh as he already suffer lot for the crime he didn’t commit.

A person who has been jailed for nothing has already completed 22 yrs of term which is more than the life imprisonment of pakistan ( 14 yrs) .We in India are treating POWs and other criminals of Pak with due procedure and humanity ,a goodwill gesture is expected.
He is being kept in crampy cell with physical and mental agony.It is a request to the authorities of both the nations not to waste any more time and act immediately

Please release him… he is innocent

The pakistan government should come up to release sarbjit singh and prove their dignity not only before india but the entire world. The country is being criticised all around the globe for this heinous act of Imprisonment of an innocent for 22 years now! It would have been a bit understandable if their would have been any records or strong and GENUINE evidences against him but they fail to provide this too. The worst of all is that the citizens of pakistan are gaining hatred from people around the world for no reason but due to the unthoughtful acts performed by the pakistani government. Please dont take this to be the voice or plea of just an indian citizen , here is the voice of every citizen in the world, every citizen who supports fair justice , every person who is Vying for world peace.

Please free Sarabhjit Singh…He is an innocent man who has spent over 19 years in prison in solitary confinement. This poor soul has been away from his family for almost all his life. He has been treated so badly by the Pakistani Govt. and has not received any help from our own Indian Govt. This is sheer injustice. Let all Indians join hands and help this man to the best of our abilities. And u Pakistani’s- High time you realize that Indians are not terrorists.

Hi
Please release Sarabjit Singh as he has already lived half his life in prison for a crime which he did not commit. Allah Se Daro

this is injustice….Mr. Sarabjit has spent 19 years in confinement – I think that is enough. He has been through more pain and suffering than being locked up and away from his own family who desperately need him. I think its time to forgive and forget…lets fee this man and let him live his life in peace with his family now.

Sarabjit Singh is innocent and he should be freed ASAP. My request to the Pakistani government and also to the Indian government to try their best to uphold the Rule of Law by releasing him.

Pres. Zardari-G,
Please release this Innocent guy, he already spent more than 20 Yrs in prison for the crime he never did. Just think can you spend a month in a room with all the facility without meeting anyone of your relative.
Please…please …let him live his remaining life with his loved ones…
It will by highly appreciated by all indians and pakistanis.

thanks,

Please free him now, 22 years is enough . Let him come back home.

Mr President please release him.Also please release 54 Indian POWs

Indian Prisoners Of War Holed Till Death In Pakistan

By
Col NN Bhatia (Retd)

‘One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional crime’.
Oscar Wilde

Capturing prisoners of war (POW) is as old as man kind and warfare. In the earliest history, men captured used to be either slaughtered or made slaves. The captured women and children were more likely to be spared but many times the purpose to capture women as concubines for sex, sexual abuse and pleasure. The first recorded usage of the phrase prisoners of war is dated around 660 AD.
A prisoner of war (POW) or enemy prisoner of war (EPW) or “Missing-Captured” is a person, whether civilian or combatant, who is held in custody by the enemy during or immediately after the armed conflict. Captor states hold POWs for any range of legitimate and illegitimate reasons. They are isolated from the operations and released and repatriated on will or under international compulsions like economic sanctions, aid blockades in an orderly manner after the hostilities, to demonstrate military victory, to prosecute and punish them for the war crimes. They are also exploited for their physical labour and as recruits or conscripts to collect military and political intelligence. The Chinese, North Koreans, Israelis, earlier Japanese and Pakistanis are also known from to indoctrinate prisoners to mold their political or religious beliefs.
About 56,000 soldiers died in prisons during the American Civil war. During World War I, about 8 million men surrendered and were held in POW camps until the war ended. At Tannenberg 92,000 Russians surrendered during the battle. Treatment to POWs till WW I was pathetic. Many died in captivity for want of treatment and poor medical and hygiene conditions in the cramped POW Camps. But conditions improved due to efforts of International Red Cross and inspections of camps by the teams of the neutral nations. The US Military made prisoners of war and missing and captured personnel as POWs and instituted “Prisoner of War” Medals. While some countries treat prisoners of war fairly well, the treatment in Germany, Japan, North Korea, Pakistan and China had been harsher. In China and North Korea it is believed that many prisoners of war were murdered, severely beaten, given summary punishments, brutal treatment and forced labour.
After the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, India had captured nearly 96,000 POWs from the erstwhile East Pakistan that included both military personnel and civilians. Pakistan also had captured nearly 400-500 Indian POWs primarily in the western sector. Most of the Indian POWs were released by Pakistan in June 1972 and I was one of the officers detailed by the Army Headquarters to debrief them. Like wise, all the Pakistani POWs were released by India after the Shimla Agreement without resolving intricate issues Kashmir, river water dispute, Siachin, Sir Creek and minority Hindus insecurity in Pakistan. That speaks volumes of poor Indian political decision making, conduct of foreign policy and diplomacy aftermath victorious war. With the result, there are 54 Indian POWs still languishing in the Pakistani jails for the last forty years under sub human conditions. Since talks on any issue with Pakistan always remain inconclusive and meaningless as country lacks sincerity, moral courage and is perpetually in the denial mode, these 54 Indians are holed up in the Pakistani jails until death. While capturing the POWs during the war is legitimate activity, the treatment of such war prisoners needs to be governed by the Geneva Convention, 1929. Both India and Pakistan are signatory to the Geneva Convention but who cares.
Indian Families Quest to Search Their Kith and Kin
In 1983, Mr G S Gill (brother of Wing Commander HS Gill whose plane was shot down over Badin on 13.12.1971and Pakistan Radio gave news of his captured alive the same day), Late Dr R S Suri (father of Maj AK Suri), Late Mr Kaura (father of Capt Ravinder Kaura), Late Mr A K Ghosh( father of Major AK Ghosh), Mrs Damayanti Tambay (wife of Flight Lt VV Tambay) and Mr Surinder Gosain (father of Flt Lt Sudhir Kumar Goswami 8956-F(P)) were sent to Pakistan as official delegation. They were conducted to only one Jail in Multan but could not locate any prisoner. Again in 2007 a group of 14 family members of the POWs were sent at the invitation of the then President of Pakistan but they could not locate them in the 10 prisons they were conducted to by the Pakistani authorities.
There are no specific reasons as to why these POWs could not be located in Pakistani jails but some logical thinking could be as under:-
• Prisoners were shifted from the jails being visited by the families.
• Over 35 years facials of prisoners and their relatives had under gone major change making recognition difficult.
• The abnormal physical, psychological and medical conditions of the POWs.
• Many may have converted to Islam, changing their names and hence difficult to locate. Some may have adopted aliases or nick names.
• Having given up hope and feeling let down by own country, community and families, POWs might have become bitter, changed loyalties to stay put in Pakistan and work as spies.
• Many may have perished in sub-human conditions of the jails or become lunatics to recognize any one.
• POWs fear reprisals after the visit. The prison staff and intelligence agencies rough them on giving evidence /information.
• Family members from India looking for their kith and kin were shadowed by the Pakistani intelligence agencies and their hotel rooms bugged and searched limiting free interaction amongst prisoners and the visiting delegates from India.
• During first visit in 1987, only one prison in Multan was visited while during the second trip visit was limited to 10 prisons across Pakistan. There may be no Indian prisoners in these jails or they were shifted prior to the planned formal visits to those jails.
• Documentation in Pakistani prisons is done in Urdu and the visitors were not conversant with the language.
In 1990 I was in Mumbai for some personal work. I was invited one day for lunch by Col Mir Fiazzudin, my Regimental officer and course mate. There I met another gentleman introduced as Mr Rajesh Kaura. He told me that his younger brother Capt Ravinder Kaura was missing believed killed in 1971 war in the western sector. They had reconciled with his death but in 1989 or so one petty smuggler Mukhtiar Singh was released from Pakistani jail who in an interview with local papers mentioned that there were many inmates including Capt Kaura in the jail he was lodged in. Ever since the news, the family was rest less to know about Ravinder’s welfare and get him released from Pakistani imprisonment. After a few days, Rajesh came to Delhi and we did meet many officials in the Ministries of Home Affairs, Defence and External Affairs but to no avail. A few years back one Roop Lal was released by Pakistan and he too stated numerous Indian including defence personnel languishing in Pakistani jails. He also said many were in poor health, under nourished, in shock and needed immediate psychiatric and long term complex rehabilitation programmes by specialists. More than that, they needed to be united with their families urgently for their emotional needs. Lately I got eagerly involved in the release of these unfortunate individuals rotting over 40 years in various Pakistani jails. I also came in contact with Mr GS Gill whose brother Wing Commander Gill and Dr Ms Waraich whose father Major Waraich are still in Pakistani captivity. The uncertainty, no news and the long confinement period has naturally wrecked all the waiting families of the victims. Dr Ms Waraich was just one year old child when her father became POW in the western sector and now she has her own grown up children who have yet to see their grand father. I learnt both from Mr GS Gill and Dr Ms Waraich that in 1983 and 2007 official delegations were sent to Pakistan to locate the missing personnel details of which are appended below.
List of Indian POWs in Pakistan

Prisoner’s Name, Rank & Unit

1. Major SPS Waraich IC-12712 15 Punjab

2. Major Kanwaljit Singh Sandhu IC-14590 15 Punjab

3. Lt SM Sabharwal SS-23957 87 Lt Regiment

4. Capt Ravinder Kaura SS-20095 39 Med Regiment

5. Sq Ldr MK Jain 5327-F(P)

6. Flt Lt Sudhir Kumar Goswami 8956-F(P)

7. Flying Officer Sudhir Tyagi 10871-F(P)

8. Flt Lt Vijay Vasant Tambay 7662 -F(P)

9. Flt Lt Nagaswami Shanker 9773-F(P)

10. Sq Ldr PN Malhotra

11. Flt Lt SK Chibber

12. Capt GR Singh IC-23283 5 Assam

13. Capt OP Dalal SS-22536 Grenadiers

14. Maj AK Ghosh IC-18790 15 Rajput

15. Maj AK Suri SS-19807 5 Assam

16. Capt KS Rathod IC23148 5 Assam

17. Flt Lt Ram Metharam Advani 7812-F(P)

18. Flt Lt Manohar Purohit 10249(N) 5 Squadron

19. Flt Lt Tanmaya Singh Dandoss 8160-F(P)

20. Wg Cdr Harsharan Singh Gill 4657-F(P)

21. Flt Lt Babul Guha 5105-F(P)

22. Flt Lt Suresh Chander Sandal 8659-F(P)

23. Major JS Malik IC-14457 8 Raj. Rifles

24. Major SC Guleri IC-20230 9 Jat

25. 2nd Lt VK Azad IC-58589 1/9 G R

26. 2nd Lt JalManeckshaw Mistry 5006-F(P)

27. Capt Kamal Bakshi IC-19294 5 Sikh

28. Flt Lt Harvinder Singh 9441-F(P)

29. Sqn Ldr Jatinder Das Kumar 4896-F(P)

30. Flt Lt LM Sassoon 7419-F(P)

31. Flt Lt Kushal Pal Singh Nanda 781N-F(N)
32. Flying Officer Krishan Lakhimal Malkani 10576-F(P)

33. Flt Lt Ashok Balwant Dhavale 9030-F(P)

34. Flt Lt L Shrikant Chanderkant Mahajan 10239-F(P)

35. 2nd Lt PR Sharma SS-22490 5/8 G R

36. Flt Lt Gurudev Singh Rai 9015-F(P)

37. Flt Lt RS Kadam 8404-F(P)

38. Flying Officer KP Murlidharan 10575-F(P)

39. Capt DS Jamwal 81 Field Regiment

40. Capt Washisht Nath Attock

41. Lt H Krishna Lal 13719585 1 JK Rifles

42. Naval Pilot Commanding Officer A Roy

43. Sqn Ldr Devaprasad Chatterjee

44. Subedar Assa Singh JC-41339 5 Sikh

45. Subedar Kalidas JC-59 8 JK

46. L/Nk Jagdish Lal 9208735 Mahar Regiment

47. Naik Hazoora Singh 682211303

48. Gunner Sujan Singh 1146819 14 FD Regiment

49. Sepoy Daler Singh 2461830 15 Punjab

50. Sepoy Pal Singh 1239603 181 Lt Regiment

51. Sepoy Jagir Singh 2459067 16 Punjab

52. Officer TS Sethi

53. Gunner Madan Mohan 1157419 94 Mountain Regiment

54. Gunner Gyan Chand.

Evidence That Indian POWs are in Pakistani Jails

Pakistani government says that there are no Indian prisoners in the Pakistani jails. But the legal, lawful, independent, impartial, authentic, documentary evidence from Pakistan, England, America and India, proves beyond reasonable doubts that certainly there are Indian POWs of 1965 and 1971 wars, who have still been painfully languishing in Pakistani jails for the last 40 years.

• Out of the 54 who went missing, 22 were pilots. Many of them were reportedly seen by Chuck Yeager, the famous former US Air Force chief, after the war while he was on an assignment in Pakistan. Yeager has mentioned this in his autobiography published in 1984.
• Kishori Lal, an automobile engineer-turned-spy now based in Ludhiana who had stayed in various Pakistani jails and was released in 1974, says that during his imprisonment in Kot Lakhpat Jail he had also met Flight Lieutenant Vijay Vasant Tambe and Major A.K. Ghosh, two of the 54 POWs.
• Maj Ghosh’s photograph behind bars was published in the in a December 27, 1971 Time cover story on the 1971 war is proof he was a POW.
• The name of Major Ashok Suri was mentioned on January 6 and 7, 1972 in Punjabi Darbar programme of Lahore. His father Dr. Ram Swaroop Suri of Faridabad had also received three letters from a Karachi jail on 7.12.1974, 26.12.1974 and 16.6.1975 stating that he was in Karachi jail along with 20 other officers

• Daljit Singh, repatriated on March 4, 1988, said he had seen Flight Lt. Tambay at the Lahore interrogation centre in February 1978.

• A book published in 1980 from Lahore titled ‘Bhutto Trial and Execution’ written by Victoria Schofield, a senior BBC London reporter, covering the period of 1978 states that the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, was detained in Kot Lakhpat jail, Lahore (page No. 59) reads: ‘Bhutto’s cell separated from a barrack area by a 10 foot high wall, did not prevent him from hearing horrific shrieks and screams at midnight from the other side of the wall. One of Bhutto’s lawyers made enquiries amongst the jail staff and ascertained that they were in fact Indian POWs who had been rendered delinquent and mental during the course of the 1971 war.

• One Mohanlal Bhaskar of Firozpur, who was in Pakistan jails between 1968 and 1974 and was repatriated on 9.12.1974, wrote a book (I was a spy of India in Pakistan) has mentioned that he spoke to Indian POWs Mr. Gill of the Indian Air Force and one Captain Singh of the Indian Army and also mentioned that there were around 40 POWs of the 1965 and 1971 wars who are languishing in Kot Lakhpat jail and had no chances of release in future.

• Mukhtayar Singh, who was repatriated from Pakistan on July 5, 1988, said Captain Giriraj Singh was lodged in Kot Lakhpat jail. Singh also reportedly saw Captain Kamal Bakshi in Multan jail around 1983. He said Bakshi could be either in Multan jail or Bahawalpur jail. There are numerous other such eyewitness reports.

• Flight Lt VV Tambay’s name was published in the Pakistan paper Sunday Pakistan Observer on December 5, 1971. It said five Indian pilots were captured alive but Pakistan did not include their names in the list of POWs at the time of exchange of prisoners as per Shimla Agreement and the Indian government had committed a blunder and forgot to secure their release.

• Daljit Singh, repatriated on March 4, 1988, said he had seen Flight Lt. Tambay at the Lahore interrogation centre in February 1978.

• The name of Flying Officer Sudhir Tyagi, whose plane was shot down near Peshawar on December 4, 1971, was announced over Pakistan Radio the next day. Ghulam Hussain S/o Hayat Dutt, who was repatriated from Pakistan on 24.3.1988, said that he had met Flying Officer Tyagi at Shahi Quila, Lahore in 1973.

• Flt. Lt. Harvinder Singh’s name was announced on 5.12.1971 on Pakistan Radio that he had been captured alive.

• Capt. Ravinder Kaura’s name was announced on Lahore Radio on 7.12.1971 during the war time and Mukhtayar Singh, who was repatriated on 5.7.1988, said that Capt. Ravinder Kaura was in Multan jail around 1981 and then later shifted to Kot Lakhpat jail.

Rajesh Kaura believes his brother Capt Ravinder Kaura is alive in Pakistan
• Wing Commander H.S. Gill’s plane was shot down over Badin on 13.12.1971. Pakistan Radio gave news of his captured alive the same day.

• Flt. Lt. Sudhir K Goswami’s plane was shot down over Sargodha on 5.12.1971 at about 7.00 p.m. The same day at 11.30 p.m. Radio Lahore announced his capture.

• Maj. SPS Warraich’s name was reportedly announced on 5/6th December, 1971 as being captured alive after he and Maj. Kanvaljit Sandhu were captured on 3.12.1971 from the Hussainiwala sector. He was subsequently reportedly seen in Multan jail in January 1972. Again he was seen in 1988 by Mohinder Singh s/o Banka Singh, who was repatriated on 24.3.1988. He said he saw him again in Kot Lakhpat jail in February 1988.

• Time magazine of London, dated December 24, 1971, carried a photograph of Indian prisoners behind the bars. The said photograph turned out to be that of Major A.K. Ghosh, who was not returned by Pakistan Govt. with the rest of the POWs.

• 2nd Lt Paras Ram Sharma’s father heard his son’s particulars being announced on Pak Radio on Jan. 2, 8 and November, 29.

• L/NK Ram Lal (Retd.) (No. 9071130) of erstwhile 2 JAK Militia after his return from Pakistan said that he had met 2nd Lt. Paras Ram Sharma in Lahore jail for 5 days from 20.4.1973 to 24.4.1973 while awaiting his repatriation to India.

• Balwan Singh, an Indian prisoner who returned home to India on 3.10.1998 after 9 years in Pakistan prisons, claims to have met Indian, POWs of the 1971 war. He said there were seven jails in which the POWs were rotated. He distinctly remembered one of the POWs as Jagdish Raj who was being kept in Fort of Attock Jail with other POWs (L/NK Jagdish Raj figures in the list of 54 POWs)

• General Chuck Yeager of USA, who was on deputation with the Pakistan Air Force for training Pakistani pilots, has written a book of his role during the Indo-Pak war and has written in his book that he had interviewed about 20 Indian pilots in the Pakistani jails.
• Shri Rooplal Saharia had been in various Pakistani jails for 26 years from 1974 to 2000. He says that there were many Indian prisoners of war languishing in various Pakistani jails
• Shri Bhogal Ram of Kashmir had been in Pakistani jails for about eight years. In the year 1999 he had come to Rajkot to meet me and brief me about what he had seen in the Pakistani jails. Shri Jagsheer Singh and Arif Mohammed, who had returned on 10.8.2004 after five years in Pakistani jails, say that there are many Indian prisoners of war who have become very weak and have been passing very critical and painful life in the Pakistani jails.
• Shri Devinder Singh of village Sanbaura, Tehsil-Hira Nagar, District, Kathua, Kashmir, was arrested in Pakistan on December 20, 1989 and returned to India on March 17, 2005 through Wagah Border along with 10 other Indian prisoners. He says that 100 Indian prisoners were languishing in Pakistani jail in a very painful condition. Many of them had become lunatic and insane and had been painfully waiting for their release since 1971 Indo-Pak war.
• Leading human rights activist Ansar Burney claimed on 28 Apr, 201 as reported by the PTI that he had traced an Indian POW captured during the 1971 war in a jail in Pakistan.

I am deeply involved in the release of the Indian POWs held in Pakistan for over 40 years. Through massive emailing and writings to both Indian and foreign media, my pleas were heard by two notably journalists both foreigners –Ms Sonya Fatah, New Delhi based Pakistani journalist who writes for the Times of India and the US based Lt Cdr Tammy Swafford who writes for The Daily Pakistan writing articles on the plight of the Indian POWs held in Pakistan. Through Sonya’s email I learnt for the first time that there were 18 Pakistani POWs holed up in India. She of course could not give me many details about them. Eventually these lead to the recording of the NDTV show on 25 Aug 2012 by Barkha Datt on the prisoners held by both the countries, which has not yet been telecast. There was large gathering of observers and eminent people from both India and Pakistan. Justice Katju of the Supreme Court, Mr KC Singh, former Foreign Secretary, Ms Sonya Fatah, the Pakistani journalist who wrote the article in TOI on 6 August on POWs issue Mr Awais Sheikh, lawyer from Pakistan who was counsel to Sarbajit Singh, Dr Waraich whose father Major Waraich is still POW in Pakistan, Wing Commander Grewal who was a POW in Pakistan and was lucky enough to be released after one year’s captivity, sister and daughter of Surjit Singh who got very emotional and some more personalities whose names I cold not recollect. A mother had come from Mumbai whose young son was missing for 7 years and reported only 4 years back that he was in Pakistani jail. One really wonders how he without passport and visa reached Lahore traveling by Samjhota Express.
Through satellite connectivity Jawed Jabbar, former Federal Minister of Pakistan, Hamid Mir, of the GEO TV, a Karachi girl from Pakistan whose 3 brothers are prisoners (fishermen) too attended the recording. The recording had tense moments as both Mr Awais (Pakistani lawyer) and the former Federal Minister of Pakistan had heated argument over Sarabjit Singh and Kasab held in India for 26/ 11 attacks. It was heartening to learn that Mr Awais was doing yeoman service in getting prisoners from both side released on humanitarian grounds as many are still detained after completion of their punishment period. Justice Katju gave his views of holding on to Dr Siddique unnecessarily and pleaded passionately that he was caught up in a murder case where no one knows who fired and killed the victim and he was held for so long in detention. He pleaded to the Indian government for his release for his old age and professional qualifications that are needed for diseases mitigation. Mr KC Singh pleaded for regulatory mechanism that punishment given to petty criminals could be completed in home country. I stated that POWs were not criminals and during war, enemy countries have legitimate right to capture POWs. POWs are governed by the Geneva Convention and both India and Pakistan are signatory to this Convention. I also said that while India released 96,000 Pakistan POWs after Shimla Agreement, 54 of our POWs were still languishing in Pakistani jails. Most probably they were the initially missing believed killed servicemen. I also mentioned that after 1962 Sino- Indian War our POWs were released by the Chinese with in one year after the war. I also highlighted that after I raised the issue of releasing our 54 POWs held for over 40 years, suddenly Pakistan has raised the issue of 18 of their servicemen held in India but no one had specified in which war they were captured and if any initiatives had been taken by Pakistan to get them released. Mr Awais, the Pakistani lawyer asked for the list of Pakistani POWs in India and I gave him. This list was sent to me earlier by the India based Pakistani journalist Ms Sonya Fatah. I pleaded that POWs held by both countries should be released. Dr Waraich gave her sad experiences of the unsuccessful visit to Pakistan in 2007 with other relatives of the Indian POWs to locate them. She highlighted the trauma of uncertain suffered by the POWs families was immense. Wing Commander Grewal mentioned how he was captured, blind folded, interrogated and released after one year along with other Indian POWs held in Pakistan.
The show ended inconclusively with the hope that all prisoners (other than Kasab type) should be released by both the governments. Mr Awais deserves our compliments for fighting for the release of prisoners held in both the countries to put an end to this human tragedy. In the end, I again request the Pakistani authority that legally, ethically and morally there is sufficient evidence of the unfortunate Indian POWs holed up in Pakistan. Pakistani leadership will do a great service to humanity and would acquire praise worthy statesman ship to unite these unfortunate victims of the war with their families in the twilight of their lives. Same holds good for the Indian leadership, too to release, if there are any Pakistani POWs on the Indian soil. If our governments do not relent, there is need for media, intelligentsia, human right activists, lawyers, educationists, Sufis, cultural, social and music groups, students- in fact the common masses of both the countries to unite peacefully in’ The Sub-Continent Spring’ like ‘The Arab Spring’ to improve bilateral relations and confidence building measures.
References
Ms Sonya Fatah article ‘40 yrs on, why are we unable to
account for 72 prisoners of war?’ in the TOI dated 6 Aug 2012.
Ms Tammy Swafford article ‘Madrigal for the Unaccounted’ published in The Daily Times, Pakistan
NDTV Show recording held on 25 Aug 2012
Personal contacts with Mr GS Gill, Dr Simmi Waraich, Ms Sonya Fatah and Mr Awais Sheikh, eminent Pakistani lawyer fighting for the release of the prisoners held both in India and Pakistan.

Weakileaks on POWs.

release him please

Well I failed to understand y aren’t the Pakistanis not supporting this forum? Strange thingy, Pakistanis have been supporting ajmal kasab (a terrorist)…Why do you guys like punishing innocents…is my question.

I was just doing a case study on Sarabjit Singh for a project in college and after doing great amount of research on his case I think the pakistani govt is being extrememly unfait to him. how can you possibly cage a man who has not even committed a crime and accuse hom of doing so? On top of that the pakistani govt is not even treating him as a a human. He is getting such brutal treatment from the pakistani govt. He isn’t getting proper food i think its better to call it impure food. its digusting and extremely sad.
PLEASE FREE HIM. ITS ABOUT TIME. 22 YEARS IS NO JOKE.

Don’t torture an innocent man, ask your inner sense and free him immediately.

Mr. Zardari,
Baksh Do usse,
Bekasoor ko saza dena achhi baat nahin.

Please free Sarabjit Singh since it is clear he was arrested and convicted on the basis of mistaken identity.

This is almost impossible to stay in a jail for so long without doing any crime I just heard in a news that Sarabjit has a doubt that in jail he is serving by slow poison we can’t be so cruel after all we are human & this is a time to show are humanity please let him go back to his home to his family he is not guilty kindly show some mercy.

it is difficult to be away from our family for 20 long years and being between four walls for so many years!
Please release him!

Please release him now!! He has already suffered more than enough that too for something which he has not committed!! Request you to free him!!

Sarabjit Singh should have been freed by now.

Hello Mr. President of Pakistan,

Today it is independence day of India & yesterday it was for you… Don’t you think at this national festivity time you must set an innocent person free. Please follow a good heart which has humanity as told in Quran.. Allah will help you in your good deeds. Please do your bit, when everything depends upon you. If you’re really serious for coordial relationship with India then you must step up for such a cause… You’re already an intelligent person this is why you’re holding seat of a president. So, I wouldn’t say more to you..

Thanks from Heart if you really think as a human..

Please release him and let him go to his family.

Its aman ki aasha……kindly release him, set him free……

Please Please Please Free Sarabjit Singh.For the sake of God.He is Innocent.

Please release Mr. Sarabjit Singh. he’s an innocent man.

Relations between India & Pakistan is improving. Please set an example & set him free so that the bonds can grow stronger. Let there be light !

Dear Mr President,
I am signing this petition with great hope on behalf of Mr. Sarabjit Singh’s family to free him from jail after hard 19 years and give him his life back which he always deserves.
Millions of people across the world (Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christians) are watching and requesting you to set up an example, so that in future your name will be remembered. This will also help to strengthen the bond between India and Pakistan.

Regards,

Let him go!

The way you have treated Indian prisoners is very cruel.. please it is enough..
Release him.. If you truly have a heart please try to feel the pain by standing in the shoes of any of the family members of Mr.Sarabjit, then you will come to know how hard it would be.. I request Pakistan Officials to consider the request of all the Indians, and also request our Indian Govt to go ahead and do something needful in the same to get the file moved in the parliament too.. With all hope and love.. –Priyatham Sanam.

Please leave him u can make a cross check and u can release long ago but you people don’t want to do that.

Y? so.

today Indian society is ravaged by the poision of fundementalism , communal hatred , injustice and curruption. n the govt. is as same. but plzz our countrymen request to our govt to pressurize pakistan to free our brothers who are still stuck there.
n plzz make other people aware of it.
Jia Hind. . . .

Please release Sarabjit Singh !!

Please show humanity to man kind, provide hope of peace to two countries and release Mr Sarabjit Singh.

Free this man. His life has been ruined for long enough.

Dear Mr.President,

From a Human point of view a person who has undergone 20 years of imprisonment has already suffered more than death. Can I humbly request you to look upon the state of this man and release him??

this is high tym plz free him now

please free him atleast for his family sake and god sake !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Respected President
Please consider sarabjit singh for humanities and please leave him for their wife and children

plz leave s.sarabjit singh

Please release him and let him go to his family.

Please free Sarabjit Singh. He has suffered enough.

Hounourable President Asif Ali Zardari Sir,

Please free Sarabjit Singh & reunite him back with his family. This man has suffered so much in more than 20yrs for a crime that he did not commit. We humbly request a thorough and honest re-inspection of the obvious facts of the case. We want justice for the innocent Sarabjit Singh. We request you to please put a stop to the pain & suffering of this man & his family. We hope that our faith & trust in you will be upheld.

Dear Mr. President,

Having read the history of this case, I strongly feel that this man has been wrongly convicted. This case has received alot of global attention and many human rights activist organisations are currently looking into this matter. At this point, I feel it will be in the best interests of Pakistan, your Government, your esteemed office and yourself to either free this man or solve the case once and for all.

free sarabjit singh ,

enough is enough …

Please free Mr. Sarabjit singh its enough know if you were in place of Mr. Sarabjit singh then you will know what is pain………..

Please free Mr. Sarabjit singh

it will be wise to free srabjit this time it is time ike neigbos like usa and canda
west german and east germany
and others learn
free him right away

Please free Mr. Sarabjit Singh

Dear Zardari,
Please free Sarabjit Singh, he is innocent. If you were instead of him you wouldn’t like it so please free him, you have been punishing an innocent man for a very long time. This is against human rights, every human has the right to live happily especially if they are innocent.

Sarabjit must be released. It is totally a case of mistaken identity. The initial lawyer must be punished for his negligence and not paying proper attention to the matter. Since Mr. Sarabjit has already passed 19 years of his life, really it is a matter of sorrow. Pakistan Govt.should think this matter very positively. They have got a good opportunity to prove their integrity.

Honble Mr. Zardari,

Its been almost 2 decades …..& i think he had enough of it…even in case if he is guilty. Sir i would request you as a good will guesture between the two country…pls release the order to free Sarabjit Singh for the sake of humanity.

Regards,
Siddhartha Singh

Why is there no initiative taken yet….pls do something for his return

please have mercy on a man who’s future is as bleak as an endless tunnel of darkness

19 years away from your family. is the biggest punishment one can ever get…Please Please Please release him…

Sir Hope you will release Mr. Sarabjit Singh. This will be a great humanatarian effort and will be remembered by the world of this great deed. Do the right thing and let him free, freeing Mr. Sarabjit Singh will bring no harm to anyone it will only bring happiness and applauds.

Sir, its heartly request from us to FREE Mr. Sarabjit Singh.

please free Sarbjit Singh

free him , dont punish him for something he did not do

please free Sarabjit..

please free him….

Please release Sarabjit Singh. I think it will not only give relief to him and his family members But also will help in bringing India Pakistan closer. Such greatful gestures will prove to be a turning point in India Pakistan relations.

Please free Sarabjit Singh, he is an innocent farmer who has had to live in a jail away from his family for 28 years. Please let this man go back to his home and family.

Please release Sarabjit Singh.
He is an innocent person…

Free Him

PLS FREE HIM

PLS FREE HIM FOR CHRISTS SAKE

free Mr. Sarabjit singh. …whole world will thank u…plz free him….

This is my humble request to the honorable president of Pakistan that please try your best sir to free Mr. Sarabjit Singh as soon as possible. This fellow has already spent 19 years under jail custody. In today’s world the people of Pakistan & India mainly the young one like us want to change the history of the two nation. What ever happened in the past is a past, we(INDIA & PAKISTAN) want peace, respect, tolerance, brotherhood, friendship, religious trust & every little thing to create a better relation among the two nation. We must try our best to set an example in front of the whole world that India & Pakistan are not at all a mere enemy …We want peace in India & in Pakistan as well…
Plzz..plzz..plzz…..set him free…..his family is waiting for his coming home..

Mr. President (Government of Pakistan),

I would request you in the name of Almighty ALLAH to grant your mercy to Sarabjit Singh. As the holy Quran says “tum logon par raham karo, ALLAH aap par raham karega”.

Let him be free after so many years in jail. You will be rewarded inshaALLAH in life after death.

please free this innocent man

don’t do injustice to sarabjit and his family..

Dear Mr. President
I request you to please pass orders for the early release of Mr. Sarabjit Singh to re-unite him with his family. Although he had spent ample of time in the prison 22+ years. At least he should spend the rest of his life along with his near & dear ones before he close his eyes. For sure you will be rewarded from Allah for setting a prisoner free.

I wish you will consider all our request and announce his early release.

plz free sarabjeet singh

I hereby request that the President of Pakistan Mr Asif Ali Zardari, Advisor/ Minister for Interior Rehman Malik, Minister of External Affairs Mr S.M. Krishna, Pakistan authorities, all government forces, agents, police to release Sarabjit Singh, an Indian citizen, currently imprisoned in solitary confinement, in the Kot Lakhpat jail, since 1990 in Lahore Pakistan. Sarabjit is a farmer and victim of mistaken identity, who strayed into Pakistan from his village located on the border.
I request to send Sarabijt Singh back to his family in Punjab. I do want human right to be respected and therefore strongly reject Sarabijt’s sentence, which he and his family suffer while under custody. I’m calling on you for Sarabijt Singh to be released immediately and unconditionally. It’s a case of mistaken identity. It’s the misinterpretation of the names in Urdu language. There is only a spelling difference. In Urdu, Sarabjit and Surjeet appear similar except that there is a minor difference of spelling. Sarabijt Singh has spent 30 years in prison for a crime he has not committed. Sincerely, Maria Odinokaya

please free sarabjit singh…..his family needs him…..president of pak should not be so cruel……don’t be heartless…..think as u are sarabjit singh Mr. president of Pak

Please free Mr. Sarabjit singh ! As if now India has also said to release Dr. Chisty. So its now pakistan’s turn to show humanity and make Sarabjit a free man.

Please release him. For Allah’ sake.

Mr President,
With due respect I personally request you to free Mr. Sarabjit Singh on humanitarian grounds….all the day we talk about Aman Ki Asha and all but are we seriously interested in spreading AMAN across border?
Why you are acting as if releasing of a humble person will cause fall in your GDP.
dont you think that 19 yrs are more than enough?

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^BE HUMAN^^^^^^^^BEING HUMAN^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

please free him

Mr. Zardari, Please release Mr. Sarabjit Singh and prove that Pakistan know the humanity. Thanks

For god sake! Release Mr. sarabjit Singh who is in jail for 19 years without any wrong doing.

plzz….Please free Mr. Sarabjit singh !

On humanitarian ground, please release Sarabjit Singh. With the release of Sarabjit Singh, we can definitely look forward for a better India-Pakistan relationship.

Please free Sarabjit and this is will a big move to the india Pakistan unity.

To the government of Pakistan: Do the right thing and free Sarabjit.

Please free him, how much more will he proove himself, If he had to be from a terrorist o , he could have not been at the border drunk.
It is just his bad luck and reached the border,
Please release him , let him go to his family, and spend his few days

In the name of humanity we request you to free Sarabjit Singh

Free the poor soul….

PLEASE HELP HIM OUT>……HE HAS A FAMILY

Free Sarabjit Singh.

Rajiv Sethi UK

do what’s right. free sarabjit singh.

please release sarabjit singh

Free Sarabjit Singh. This is about the life of an innocent man who deserves freedom and not death.

Pls set him free… dont be heartless… his family awaits n so do we!!

You’re already a cursed nation Pakistan.
Give us Indians a reason to respect you as a sovereign nation.
Please Release mr. Sarabjit. He deserves to come back home.
India is now home to many pakistanis and they are treated with respect.
Let’s do something productive. Infact we should be burning people like kasab and dawood alive… But we are humans at the end of the day.
It’s your turn now.
JAI HIND !

Free Sarbajeet Please.

free him please

Please free him , 19 long years in solitary confinement just because he passed across your border .. For the sake of humanity he deserves to be set free

Please free him.

Mr.Zardari, I request you to please free sarabjit. He has been a good prisoner for the last so many years. I am a an Indian Muslim and islam asks us to deliver justice impartially. Do justice Mr. president. Pardon him. He has a family back home. Its time you show that Pakistan is interested in peace with India. I also appeal to India government that if there is any pakistani prisoner in India who has a case similar to Sarabjit, please free him too. May be there can be a mutual exchange of prisoners. Indian government please put in all your efforts to secure the release.

Hello.
Please gave the freedom to Sarabjeet Singh.his family miss him………I request to Mr. President of Pakistan ,plz release him.

Thanks & regards

Free sarabjit singh Dont make this fellow victim of your Dirty poltics.Think About his family once.Be human.god bless him

Plz free Sarabajit Singh…..

We understand that the two countries have never had cordial relations but we request you to release Sarabjit Singh. He might be one Indian in Pakistan but he definitely means a lot for his family. Pls speed up the process and release him.

release the sarabjeet singh on the humanitarian grounds,he is a innocent person and he deserves to live his remaining life with his family after being improsened for 22 years he too has a family and he must be released

PLease people stop these fight and egoness.. stay in peace. Why leaders fight i dont understand , leaders decision,egoness,hate,rule kills innocent. really it hurts

Dear Pakistan,

The hoax release has been a terrible incident. Please FREE this man, this would help indo-pakistani relations. Please give this man his freedom to be with his family.

To improve Indo-Pakistani relations, such a move from Pakistan would not only soften relationship, but also portray Pakistan’s human side. Good luck to Indian and Pakistanis for colourful mutual coexistence

Free him …..

Give this man his freedom to meet his family and kids after a long long time in prison. Not only is he suffering but his family as well.

Now the Pakistani government has dashed his hopes by playing a game of getting the name wrong. If it was a game they played – what goes around comes around.

May God Bless Sarabjit & his family.

Honble Mr. Zardari,

Please let sarabjit spend rest of his life in his home country. He has been away from his family and been sentenced for no cause. 21 years is a very long period for anyone to be imprisoned. He has lready wasted half of his life in jail in pakistan. Love thy neighbours is what we have been learning in schools. Please request him to set him free.

Sir is it true, people like you dont want Indo Pak peace? How many years will spend in all these stupid things?

Please Sir,
Free Sarabjit Singh. This isn’t something to be played politics about. This is about the life of an innocent man who deserves freedom and not death.
Heartfelt request on the behalf of all Indians.

Dear Sir,

please free this most probably innocent man, especially after the confusing news by your government that he will be released which was erroneous. Don’t let the family suffer needlessly again after they had been so happy about the fake release. Release of this prisoner will moreover farther strengthen the ties between your country and India. Thank you.

Please free sarabjeet

THANKS TO THE GOVT ALL WISH U ALL THE BEST SARBJIT

it is unbelievable to be away from our family for 20 years and being confined to four walls for so many years!!!
please release him as earlier as possible!!!

we won sarabjit is freed

Please free this innocent human being

Please free this innocent man!

Dear Sir,
On humanitarian grounds could you please release Mr Sarabit Singh.

free him please…request u..

Please free Mr. Sarabjit singh ! As if now India has also said to release Dr. Chisty. So its now pakistan’s turn to show humanity and make Sarabjit a free man.