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Lashkar-e-Taiba operative Sheikh Yousaf Afridi, a close aide of Hafiz Saeed, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Afridi, considered a key figure in LeT's regional structure, was killed in Landi Kotal. The incident follows a recent attack on another LeT leader, Amir Hamza.

Lashkar-e-Taiba co-founder Amir Hamza was shot at in Lahore after a TV appearance, with assailants escaping on motorcycles. The attack, which bore similarities to a Bollywood film scene, has drawn condemnation from Hafiz Saeed's party, which questioned the Punjab government's security. Hamza, designated a terrorist by the US, previously headed LeT's special campaigns.

SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar on Friday said that the staff of kot lakhpat jail had failed to maintain the dignity of human values and killed a person who was under their security.

Pakistan's security agencies have foiled a plan of militants to attack kot lakhpat Jail where at least 50 death row terrorists including five dreaded one are lodged and arrested two women and a man linked with the plot.

Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh, who died in the Jinnah hospital early on Friday following a deadly assault by fellow convicts last Friday, spent more than two decades in Lahore’s kot lakhpat prison. Over time he grew friendly with many of his inmates.

Body of Indian prisoner Chamel Singh who was beaten to death in Pakistan's kot lakhpat Jail may not arrive in India in the near future.

Body of Indian prisoner Chamel Singh, who was beaten to death in Pakistan's kot lakhpat Jail, may not arrive India in the near future after the court directed Pakistani advocate Awaish Sheikh to approach interior ministry.

Eleven Indian prisoners languishing in kot lakhpat Jail of Lahore have sought death to get rid of their "sorrowful lives".

Twenty out of 36 Indian prisoners lodged in Lahore's infamous kot lakhpat jail, where Sarabjit Singh was fatally attacked, have lost their mental balance and not been taken to any hospital for proper medical care, an India-Pakistan judicial panel has found.

Baljinder Kaur hopes to meet his father Balwinder Singh, who is believed to be held in Pakistan as Prisoner of War- 1971 war. “My father was such a brave soldier that till date his regiment sings ballads of his bravery, my heart says that he is still alive in one of Pakistan's jail,” said Baljinder Kaur while talking to TOI on Monday adding that her quest won't end.

As the news of Jagir Kaur’s appeal made to government to take up the issue of her brother Kirpal Singh’s release from Pakistan jail during the ensuing foreign secretary level talks with Pakistan, relatives of those lodged in Pakistan jails have surfaced making similar appeals to the government.

Whereabouts of Jatinderpal Singh who had gone to Lebanon for job in 2007 have been traced in kot lakhpat jail in Pakistan.

Bhavesh Kantilal Parmar, a Mumbai resident, at present lodged in kot lakhpat jail, Pakistan would be released on October 25, informed Parmar's counsel Awais Sheikh while talking to TOI over phone from Lahore on Friday.

Kamlesh Devi, wife of Indian prisoner Chamail Singh, who died in Lahore’s kot lakhpat jail recentlyhas sought immediate access to his body for the last rites.

As many as 20 of the 36 Indian prisoners in Lahore’s kot lakhpat jail were found to be mentally unstable by an India-Pakistan judicial committee on prisoners that visited Pakistan’s jails between April 26 and May 1.

A Pakistani judicial commission probing the brutal murder of Indian national Sarabjit Singh in kot lakhpat jail has recorded the statements of 38 witnesses so far.

Dilip Yadav, a resident of Ahmedabad, is worried for his brother Kuldeep Kumar who has been in the kot lakhpat prison for nearly two decades where the fatal assault on Sarabjit took place.

Pakistan government has allowed Awais Sheikh, counsel of Indian condemned prisoner Sarabjit Singh , to meet his client in kot lakhpat jail .

Perturbed over the unusual delay in their release, eight Indian prisoners have gone on fast in kot lakhpat jail, Lahore, Pakistan, demanding their immediate release.

Jagir Kaur, sister of Kirpal Singh, another Indian waiting to be hanged in Pakistan’s kot lakhpat Jail for the past twenty years, has appealed to the government to take up the issue of release of her brother during India-Pakistan foreign secretary level talks scheduled to be held at Islamabad on June 23 and 24.

Mumbaikar Bhavesh Kantilal Parmar , currently lodged in kot lakhpat jail, Pakistan would be released on October 25th , informed Parmar’s counsel Awais Sheikh while talking to TOI over phone from Lahore on Friday.

A UK-based rights activist has moved United Nations, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International seeking investigation into the murder of Indian prisoner Chamel Singh in Lahore's kot lakhpat jail.

“What is our government doing to ensure safety of other prisoners lodged in Pakistan jails so that another Sarabjit episode does not take place?” asks Dilip Yadav, a resident of Chandkheda.

Times news network Many Indian prisoners are lodged in Pakistan's kot lakhpat jail, some of them for as long as 22 years.

PATIALA: Gurmit Singh of Timbarpur village in Fatehgarh district, who was also released on Sunday, has noted down the names of 10 Indians lodged in Kota and seven in kot lakhpat jail.

Pakistan's interior minister Rehman Malik said on Monday he had ordered an inquiry into the death of Indian national Chambail Singh.

Indian national Sarabjit Singh, on death row in Pakistan, had an emotional reunion with his sister Dalbir Kaur after three years in a prison in this eastern Pakistani city on Thursday.