| JAGMOHAN SINGH | |
| Monday, 11 August 2008 |
AMRITSAR : Former Parliamentarian and president of Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) Simarnjit Singh Mann here today has urged the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to do the needful to get unlocked the Sikh Gurdwara (Sikh shrines) in Afghanistan.
Talking to the media persons here Monday Mann said that being a Sikh prime minister it becomes the moral and religious duty of Dr.Manmohan Singh to exercise diplomatic channel with the Afghanistan Government to get unlocked the Sikh shrines in Afghanistan.
Mann said that during the trouble period all Sikh shrines and cremation grounds of Sikh community were locked and still coming locked and Indian Sikh Prime Minister has done nothing in this regards.
Mann also urged Dr.Singh to hold talk with Pakistan for the safe repatriation of Indian National Sarabjit Singh who was on death row.
Mann said that it would be nothing wrong for Indian Government to adopt give and take policy in case of Sarabjit Singh’s repatriation. Mann said that Indian Government should not hesitate to handover Afzal Guru for Sarabjit.
Sarabjit an Indian national who had inadvertently slipped to Pakistan in a state of drunken nearly two decades ago from the Punjab border. In Pakistan he was arrested by the police and condemned to death for his alleged involvement in four bomb blasts in Pakistan in 1990.
Whereas Mohammad Afzal, also known as Afzal Guru, was convicted of conspiracy in the December 2001 attack on Indian Parliament and was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of India in 2004. The sentence was to be carried out on 20 October 2006. The sentence is now stayed.