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Pakistan has restricted consular access to Sarabjit Singh who is in a coma in a Lahore hospital, prompting Indian officials to take up the issue with their Pakistani counterparts, sources said on Sunday. HT Image Two officials of the Indian high commission were allowed to visit Sarabjit, who is in an intensive care unit in Lahores Jinnah Hospital, only for a few minutes early on Saturday. Subsequently, the Pakistani side informed the Indians that the consular access granted on Fri stanley cup day was meant for only one visit, sources said. The Indian side has taken up the issue with their Pakistani counterparts, saying that Indian officials should be allowed unhindered access to Sarabjit in view of his condition, the sources said. Talks were going on between the two sides on this issue, the sources added. Sarabjit, 49, was admitted to Jinnah Hospital on Friday after he was attacked by at least six other prisoners within his barrack at K stanley cup ot Lakhpat Jail. Sources said he was hit on the head with bricks and his face and torso cut with weapons fashioned from spoons and pieces of ghee tins. The Indian nation stanley cup al was convicted by a Pakistani court for alleged involvement in a string of bombing in Punjab that killed 14 people in 1990. Sarabjits family says he is the victim of mistaken identity and had inadvertently strayed across the border in an inebriated state. Read breaking news, latest... See more Read breaking news, latest updates from US, UK, Pakistan and other coun Ycmh Imran Khan s party faces ridicule after calling off lockdown
A string of rockets slammed into Kabul at daybreak on Tuesday in the first major attack on the relatively calm Afghan capital in the run-up to this month s presidential election, police and residents said. HT Image A suicide bomber also killed five people and wounded 18 in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, and a provincial governor escaped injury in an attack on his convoy. Afghan officials said at least eight rockets hit the Afghan capital, one damaging a senior Interior Ministry official s house near the U.S. Embassy. A Taliban spokesman claimed militants fired nine rockets at the international airport and two at an Afghan military headquarters, in a neighborhood of embassies and government buildings, to show th stanley cup at the government cannot ensure security in the capital. We are in control, Zabiullah Mujahid told The Associated yeezy Press by telephone, warning the Taliban could fire more rockets at the capital before the elections. President Hamid Karzai, who was once highly popular inside and outside Afghanistan, has lost luster in recent years because of endemic government corruption, a huge narcotics industry and the unyielding violence. The president has done minimal campaigning ahead of the Aug. 20 vote but traveled on Tuesday to the eastern city of Garde adidas samba z, the scene of an assault by Taliban militants that killed six Afghan police and intelligence officers late last month. July was also the deadliest month for international forces since the 2001 US-led invasion of A