Punjab Assembly welcomes release of Surjeet
The Punjab Assembly on Friday welcomed the release of Surjeet Singh, who returned home yesterday after spending 31 years in a Pakistan jail, and urged the Centre to take steps to secure the release of another resident of the state Sarabjit Singh languishing in Lahore jail for the last 20 years.
India on Wednesday made a request to Pakistan to release death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh following Islamabad's decision to release Surjeet Singh who was named by mistake on Pakistan's news channel as Sarabjit Singh.