Sarabjit's lawyer Rana Abdul Hamid also has no such confirmation in Pakistan with regard to his client's conversion.
Grewal, who was elected to the mayoral office in May 2005, said he will appeal UK PM Tony Blair to intervene.
Responding to questions on Musharraf's remarks on Sarabjeet that he was involved in terrorist acts, he said "we have told them (Pakistan) that he is an Indian national and sentiments are attached to the issue."
A stubborn 82 by Jasvir Singh and his unbeaten 93-run partnership for the fifth wicket with skipper Sarabjit Singh (23) helped Services crawl to 203 for 4 against Andhra.
Sarabjit Singh, whose family claims had ventured into Pakistan border and was captured, has been languishing in Pakistan's prisons for 15 years.
An India-Pakistan judicial panel, that visited Lahore's Jinnah Hospital where Sarabjit Singh was under treatment, has recommended that jail authorities "ensure adequate security for all Indian prisoners" to avoid such incidents in future.
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Parliamentarians of Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance on Friday met President Pranab Mukherjee to express concern over Chinese incursions into Ladakh and the manner in which the case of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh was handled by the government.
Pakistan's caretaker Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso has called on his Indian counterpart to personally look into an attack on a Pakistani prisoner in a jail in Jammu and ensure a thorough investigation.Sanaullah Ranjay, a Pakistani national serving a life sentence was attacked in the prison in Jammu, a day after Indian national Sarabjit Singh succumbed to injuries sustained in a brutal assault within a jail in Lahore.
It was not immediately known whether the attack on the 52-year-old convict with a sharp weapon was a backlash against the death of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh in a hospital in Pakistan on Thursday after being comatose for nearly a week following a brutal assault by fellow inmates in a high-security Lahore jail
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Pakistani microbiologist Khalil Chisti reached New Delhi on Monday night from Ajmer as he set out on his journey back home for a temporary period, after spending almost two decades in India.
The home minister assured the family members of Kirpal Singh of all possible help from the government, official sources said.
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Outlawed radical outfit Jamaat-ud-Dawah has warned India against 'striking' Pakistan and asked it to hand over persons involved in the Samjhauta Express train bombing.
'At some stage they will convert it to life imprisonment or something else,' says Former R&AW officer and author of Mission R&AW R K Yadav.
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After Muneer's release, Pakistan did not respond to extradition requests by the Indian government.
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The heart and stomach were missing as they had been taken out during the first autopsy conducted at Jinnah Hospital in Lahore.
The body of Indian prisoner Kirpal Singh, who died under mysterious circumstances in a Pakistani jail, arrived in India on Tuesday.
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Information Commissioner Sridhar Acharyulu said government facilitates freedom fighters and gives pension but revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh are not even give the status of a martyr leave aside any financial support to their families.
Charging him with 'lying' on the issue of detention centres for illegal Bangladeshi immigrants and equating the Sarabjit case with that of Afzal Guru, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday demanded an apology from Home Minister Shivraj Patil, failing which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh must sack him from the Council of Ministers.
In a move that could benefit Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, leading Pakistani rights activist Ansar Burney on Thursday asked President Pervez Musharraf to convert all death sentences in the country to life imprisonment. "This is an issue on which we have spoken several times during our meetings and an issue on which I have already sent several appeals," the former human rights minister said.
India on Wednesday asked its acting high commissioner in Islamabad to seek a meeting with the Pakistan foreign office in connection with the death of an Indian under mysterious circumstances in a jail there.
Defending champions Punjab were shocked by Manipur 2-1 in the quarter-final Group A league opener in the 63rd National Football championship, for the Santosh Trophy, at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, in Chennai on Tuesday.
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.
The fifth match of the ICL 20s Indian Championship witnessed the in form Chandigarh Lions edge Mumbai Champs by two wickets in a low-scoring game at the LB Stadium in Hyderabad on Monday.
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.
The builder who had complained in court that JD(U) MLA Anant Singh forcefully secured his signatures on blank cheques and threatening him, has now approached the court seeking to withdraw the petition.
A man allegedly involved in the gangrape of a 20-year-old woman in Mari Mustafa village was arrested in Moga even as raids were carried out on Friday to trace four other accused who are on the run.
The Pakistan government has told leading human rights activist Ansar Burney's family that it had no role in his deportation from India to Dubai, his brother said on Saturday.Ansar Burney, who played a key role in the release of Indian death row prisoner Kashmir Singh and has been campaigning for clemency for another death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, was deported from New Delhi shortly after he arrived at the Indira Gandhi Airport on Friday night.
Chasing a modest target of 125, Chandigarh Lions surrendered meekly handing a 43-run win victory to Kolkata Tigers in the fifth match of the Indian Cricket League's Twenty20 tournament in Panchkula
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