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Monday, March 3, 2008

Indian prisoner Kashmir Singh walks free

After 35 long years behind bars, Kashmir Singh is finally a free man.

He was released from the Lahore jail late on Monday evening.

The former Indian prisoner will be reunited with his wife and three sons at Wagah border later on Tuesday, but not before he pays his respects at Nankana Sahib.

Kashmir Singh was arrested in Pakistan in 1973 on charges of spying and sentenced to death by an Army court.

President Pervez Musharraf pardoned him, after the Pakistani Human Rights Commission pleaded his case.

''He is 100 per cent fit. He is mentally and physically sound,'' said Ansar Burney, Caretaker Minister for Human Rights.

It has now emerged that Kashmir Singh converted to Islam during his time in jail and is now known as Mohammed Ibrahim.