Wednesday, June 15, 2011

INDO-PAK TIES: Pak SC refuses to appeal to India for Dr. Chishty's release!

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ANITA JOSHUA / THE HINDU.

Citing jurisdictional limitations, Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to borrow a leaf out of the Indian Apex Court’s example and appeal to India for granting remission to 80-year-old Saiyyad Mohammed Khaleel Chishty who has been jailed in a Rajasthan prison since 1992.
Encouraged by Islamabad’s goodwill gesture of releasing Indian prisoner Gopal Dass in March before completion of his sentence in response to an appeal from the Supreme Court of India (SCI), Dr. Chishty’s family had filed a petition in the Apex Court on June 1 seeking a similar intervention from the highest judiciary of the land.
The three-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, dismissed the petition after the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed the Court that it was actively pursuing the matter with the Indian Government to secure Dr. Chishty’s release and repatriation at the earliest.

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