Burney, who was the human rights minister in the interim government in Pakistan, was deported back from the Indira Gandhi International Airport by an Emirates Airways flight at Airways flight at around 2030 hours because of a "look-out" notice against him, they said. It was, however, not immediately clear who had issued the notice against him and in what connection.
They were caught before they executed the attack on January 26.
During his visit to India, Burney is expected to meet senior officials, including the ministers for home affairs and external affairs, and human rights activists in an effort to secure the release of all Pakistani prisoners who had completed their sentences.
A Hubli court issued warrants to secure the custody of four terror suspects currently lodged in Indore jail for interrogation by the Karnataka Police. The order was passed after after the Corps of Detectives, probing the terror network in Karnataka, sought the warrants to take Mohammed Yaseen, Mohamammed Ansar, Munroz Zama and P A Shadili into its custody for questioning them.
Burney, who is a member of the Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council, said that 'with so many facts in favour of Sarabjit and so little to justify the death sentence awarded to him, it seemed Sarabjit's biggest crime may have been his Indian nationality as no unbiased court would ever sentence a man to death in such a weak case'.
Stating that the change of government in the neighbouring country had strengthened their hope for the release of Sarbajit, Sarabjit Singh's sister Dalbir Kaur said she would go to the Pakistan High Commission to apply for the visas immediately after obtaining the passports.
Pakistan has launched new terror outfits staffed by cadres of the dreaded Lashkar-e-Tayiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed under 'local names' to mislead the world that it has nothing to do with the terrorism prevalent in Jammu and Kashmir, Director General of Police (DGP) of the union territory Dilbag Singh said.
If this trend continues, 2018 may end up as the worst year in terms of number of youths joining various terror groups, according to the officials.
Dawood Ibrahim is wanted in India to face the law of the land for carrying out serial blasts in Mumbai in 1993 in which scores of people were killed and injured.
In the Middle East, which is already coping with the Qatar-Saudi Arabia tensions, comes another pressure point.
The deportation of Pakistani human rights activist Ansar Burney from India could delay the release of Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh in Lahore, Singh's sister said on Saturday and asked Indian politicians not to play "dirty politics".
Promising to help Sarabjit Singh, Pakistani human rights campaigner Ansar Burney on Tuesday said he will seek pardon from the relatives of those killed in bomb blasts allegedly involving the Indian prisoner. Burney, who met Home Minister Shivraj Patil and Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon in Delhi, said he would also take up the case of another Indian national languishing in a Pakistani jail for 28 years.
Dalbir Kaur, sister of Indian prisoner in Pakistan Sarabjit Singh, is hopeful that Pakistan's Human Rights minister Ansar Burney will bring some good news for her and her family members after his meeting with President Pervez Musharraf. Burney had promised Dalbir Kaur that he would take up the matter Musharraf soon after a daily said Sarabjit would be hanged to death on April 1. He had been dubbed a RAW agent and sentenced to death.
East Bengal started their AFC Cup campaign with a 0-1 loss to Lebanon's Safa Sporting Club.
Kashmir Singh will be released from Lahore's Central Jail and taken by road to the Wagah border by Pakistan's caretaker human rights minister Ansar Burney, where he will be reunited with families and well-wishers.
"I still remember the day I went to Kot Lakhpat jail in Lahore and Kashmir Singh told me his love story and how he got married to Paramjit Kaur. After listening to him, I was so moved I decided to reunite the pair," Burney told reporters on Wednesday. He said the prisoner was weeping uncontrollably within the jail walls and "he told me he was not worried about his life, but always thought about his wife."
Dempo paid for their profligacy with an own goal by their captain to go down 2-3 to Sur Club of Oman in the AFC Cup Group A thriller at Nizwa. The I-League champions, who beat Lebanese powerhouse Al Ansar in their opening pool match, wasted a couple of clear chances and conceded an own goal by star playmaker Climax Lawrence.
Prima facie, the derailment was caused by a rail fracture.
The saree, which has registered itself in the Guinness Book of World Records, weighs a mammoth 72 kg with the embroidery weighing nearly 15 kg. The total weight of the silk used in crafting this masterpiece is 57 kg.
Intelligence sleuths had seized the cellphone (9906872239) from prisoner Gurmail Singh in Barrack number two in Block number 14 of high security Kotbalwal jail.
Dempo revived their chances of making it to the knockout phase of the AFC Cup with a 2-1 victory over Bahrain league champions Al Muharraq in their Group A match at the National Stadium near Manama on Wednesday. It was sweet revenge for the I-League champions, who lost 0-4 at home to the same opponents on April 2. They now have six points from four matches.
'This is for the first time that a strong, solid evidence-based investigation has happened.' 'It can meet international standards and put the onus on the Pakistanis.'
The five Pakistan-based organisations are Harakat-ul-Jihad-ul-Islami, Jundallah, Khuddam ul-Islam, Lashkar-e Jhangvi and Sipah-e Sahab Pakistan. The Bangladesh-based outfit is Harakat-ul-Jihad-ul-Islami (Bangladesh).
A special court on Thursday refused to discharge 2 accused held for conspiring the twin blasts in the city in August 2003.
Police had prepared the sketches on the basis of information provided by the witnesses.
Al-Qaeda on Tuesday claimed responsibility for the brutal killings of Bangladesh's first gay magazine editor
Khairul Islam alias Fahim, a leader of intelligence wing of the outlawed Ansar al-Islam also known as Ansarullah Bangla Team, was arrested from Kamlapur Rail Station area in Dhaka on Friday night, said Masudur Rahman, deputy commissioner of the Detective Branch of Police.
Osama bin Laden got inspiration for the deadly 9/11 attacks from a 1999 plane crash in which an Egyptian airline pilot deliberately downed his plane in the Atlantic Ocean, the Al Qaeda has claimed.
The officer, Dr Seema, said she had gone to the village on the directions of the DPRO to review developmental works.
Saquib was killed in Anantnag following a tip-off.
Lelhari was named as the new commander of Ghazwat-ul-Hind in June this year after Zakir Musa was gunned down by security forces.
On the sixth anniversary of the 2008 Batla House encounter on Friday, terror group Ansar-ul-Tawhid Fi Bilad Al Hind has issued a threat to avenge the killings of Indian Mujahideen members who died in the encounter.
Thursday's savage murder of writer Avijit Roy in Dhaka raises troubling questions about religion-inspired terror in Bangladesh.
Two .32 pistols and four cell phones were seized from the duo.
Three suspected Al Qaeda-linked militants, including a British national who masterminded the recent brutal murders of two prominent secular bloggers, were today remanded to police custody for seven days by a court here for interrogation.
Bangladeshi-Canadian Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury and dismissed army officer Syed Md Ziaul Haque have been identified as the brains behind the two terror attacks.
The Corps commander said Pakistan and its army were desperate to disrupt peace in Kashmir Valley.
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