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Kashmir Singh savours the sight of green fields

by Indo-Asian News Service March 16, 2008 Science

The atmosphere is still charged in Kashmir Singh’s house. His eldest son has not yet put the cap back on the whisky bottle opened to celebrate his father’s release from a Pakistani jail early this month.
After languishing in many Pakistani jails for nearly 35 years, Kashmir Singh is now savouring every moment of his freedom [...]

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I was not a spy, says Kashmir Singh

by Indo-Asian News Service March 8, 2008 India News

Tinker, smuggler, soldier, spy – after 35 years in Pakistani prisons on charges of spying, Kashmir Singh does not seem to be able to make up his mind on what he was. But he was very clear on one point Saturday – he was not a spy.
In his latest flip-flop on the issue since his [...]

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From Pakistan to Paris in Punjab, Kashmir takes in his new life

by Indo-Asian News Service March 7, 2008 India News

Marking the days in a dark cell, time may have stood still for Kashmir Singh – but life has moved on. The former soldier who has just returned home after 35 years in a Pakistan prison is coming to terms not only with his children, now grown up, his wife, now wizened with age, but [...]

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Kashmir comes home, bringing hope for other prisoners

by Indo-Asian News Service March 5, 2008 India News

When the gates of the Attari-Wagah border checkpost parted and Kashmir Singh walked in after spending 35 years in a Pakistani jail, it opened up not just a fresh chapter in goodwill but also new hope for the hundreds of others marking time in the prisons of the two countries.
That the man who was labelled [...]

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Many false alarms before Kashmir Singh returns

by Indo-Asian News Service March 4, 2008 India News

The arrival of former Indian soldier Kashmir Singh to his homeland Tuesday had several false starts.
He was originally scheduled to arrive at this border check post between India and Pakistan at 11 a.m. His family arrived just after 8 a.m. – a full three hours early.
Singh finally crossed into India just after 12.40 p.m. after [...]

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Kashmir Singh comes to India, after 35 years

by Indo-Asian News Service March 4, 2008 India News

March 4 (IANS) A bald man blinked at the dozens of TV microphones shoved at his face, thanked everybody and embraced his childhood friend. After 35 years in Pakistani jails, Kashmir Singh returned to India Tuesday.
A handful of relatives and a few more fellow villagers gathered – flowers in hand – at this border check-post [...]

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Call us home, Indian ’spy’ in Pakistan jail tells government

by Indo-Asian News Service March 4, 2008 India News

As Kashmir Singh prepares to return home after 35 years in a Pakistani jail, another Indian national has written to the chief justice with an impassioned appeal that India must own up to “spies” like him who have been languishing in prisons across the border for decades.
Gopal Dass, who was arrested by Pakistani forces on [...]

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