Why isn't Sarabjit giving PM sleepless nights, asks BJP

17/03/2008 11:38:03 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Why_isnt_Sarabjit_giving_PM_sleepless_nights_asks_BJP/articleshow/2874886.cms
NEW DELHI: With Pakistan reportedly deciding to hang Indian national Sarabjit Singh, the BJP on Monday asked the government to talk to Islamabad 'sternly' to save the 'innocent' person from the gallows. The Opposition party had a dig at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, saying he had said that he was having 'sleepless nights' when Indian doctor Mohd Haneef was arrested in Australia last year but was silent on the Sarabjit issue. "When Haneef was arrested in Australia, the Prime Minister had said he was having 'sleepless nights'. But when an innocent Indian is facing death in Pakistan, the Prime Minister is having sound sleep," BJP vice president Mukhtar Abass Naqvi told reporters here. Naqvi, who raised the Sarabjit issue in Rajya Sabha earlier, said "the entire nation is filled with sadness, worry and anxiety" following reports that the Indian national would be hanged on April one. "Unfortunately the government is not taking any concrete step. The Prime Minister and the government should speak to Pakistan sternly and with clarity over the Sarabjit issue to save him from death," the BJP leader said.
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K.Venugopal 17/03/2008 11:17:09
Take no prisonersEven if it means releasing terrorists, we must do everything to get Sarabjit Singh back. One Indian is worth more than any number of terrorists (who are anyway fed biriyanis and fattened in jails). But we must also resolve that for every terrorist we release, we shall kill 5 terrorists in futre without taking them prisoners.