Khalil Chisty

The family of Sarabjit Singh, the Indian prisoner who is comatose at a Lahore hospital, returned to India via the Wagah border today. Sarabjit's sister Dalbir Kaur, his wife and two daughters were granted emergency visas to visit Pakistan on Sunday.

The Supreme Court today freed Pakistani microbiologist Dr Mohammad Khalil Chisti in connection with a murder case. The court said Dr Chishty has already spent one year and four months in prison and no further custody is required.

Virologist Mohammed Khalil Chisty will return to Pakistan from India after 20 years in jail on board a special aircraft being sent by President Asif Ali Zardari, a media report said on Tuesday.

Dr Khalil Chishty, an 80-year-old Pakistani virologist who has spent many years at a prison in Ajmer, left for New Delhi from Ajmer today as he set out on his journey back home after 20 years.

Pakistani activist Ansar Burney has appealed to President Asif Ali Zardari today to convert the death sentence of Indian national Sarabjit Singh, facing gallows on charges of involvement in bomb blasts in Lahore and Multan, to life imprisonment on humanitarian grounds.

The mercy plea of Mohammad Khalil Chishty, an 80-year-old Pakistani citizen serving life sentence in the Ajmer Central Jail, has been given clearance by the Rajasthan home department, sources in the department said on Friday.

A decision on the mercy petition of Pakistani prisoner Dr Khalil Chishty is bound to be delayed for some more time now.Rajasthan Governor Shivraj Patil has sought more information on the case.The move has left the family deeply disappointed."We have a humble request to the Government of India and all those who will decide his case: Please release h...

The family of Sarabjit Singh, the Indian prisoner who is comatose at a Lahore hospital, returned to India via the Wagah border today. Sarabjit's sister Dalbir Kaur, his wife and two daughters were granted emergency visas to visit Pakistan on Sunday.

The Supreme Court today freed Pakistani microbiologist Dr Mohammad Khalil Chisti in connection with a murder case. The court said Dr Chishty has already spent one year and four months in prison and no further custody is required.

Virologist Mohammed Khalil Chisty will return to Pakistan from India after 20 years in jail on board a special aircraft being sent by President Asif Ali Zardari, a media report said on Tuesday.

Dr Khalil Chishty, an 80-year-old Pakistani virologist who has spent many years at a prison in Ajmer, left for New Delhi from Ajmer today as he set out on his journey back home after 20 years.

Pakistani activist Ansar Burney has appealed to President Asif Ali Zardari today to convert the death sentence of Indian national Sarabjit Singh, facing gallows on charges of involvement in bomb blasts in Lahore and Multan, to life imprisonment on humanitarian grounds.

The mercy plea of Mohammad Khalil Chishty, an 80-year-old Pakistani citizen serving life sentence in the Ajmer Central Jail, has been given clearance by the Rajasthan home department, sources in the department said on Friday.

A decision on the mercy petition of Pakistani prisoner Dr Khalil Chishty is bound to be delayed for some more time now.Rajasthan Governor Shivraj Patil has sought more information on the case.The move has left the family deeply disappointed."We have a humble request to the Government of India and all those who will decide his case: Please release h...