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Sikhs to fight for Sarabjit
03/19/2008
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080319/jsp/jharkhand/story_9035338.jsp
Jamshedpur, March 18: The Sikh community here has decided not to be silent on hanging of Sarabjit Singh in Pakistan on April 1.
“We will take to the streets and raise our voice for stopping the Pakistan government from executing the Indian,” Sardar Shailendra Singh, the president of Central Gurdwara Prabhandhak Com- mittee (CGPC), Jamshedpur, said while addressing a meeting at Sakchi Gurdwara this evening.
He had convened the meeting to urge the community members to express solidarity to the cause of rescuing Sarabjit from capital punishment in Pakistan.
Singh said those who attended the executive committee meeting of the CGPC were unanimous in their stand to launch an agitation to save Sarabjit Singh and retrieve him from Pakistan.
The CGPC president said a delegation would meet East Singhbhum deputy commissioner Nitin Madan Kulkarni on Thursday. They will give him a memorandum addressed to the President and the Prime Minister urging the duo to put pressure on Pakistan for the release of Sarabjit.
“As it is a matter of a foreign land, we will begin our agitation by sending memorandums to the President and Prime Minister through the deputy commissioner. But in the next few days, we will take to the streets and organise a huge protest rally for the release of Sarabjit,” said Singh.
He pointed out that from what they have learnt through newspapers and the electronic media, Sarabjit was falsely implicated in a serial bomb blast case in Pakistan’s Lahore and Multan in 1990.
“We came to know that Sarabjit is in judicial custody in Pakistan for 18 years in connection to the serial blasts. But when Sarabjit was languishing in the Pakistani jail for so long, what prompted that country to decide to hang the Indian?” the CGPC chief asked.
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