Pakistan shocked by Kashmir Singh's confession

ISLAMABAD: Ansar Burney, the Pakistani minister for human rights, who had played a vital role in the release of Kashmir Singh, has expressed shock over the latter’s confession that he was actually a spy and has sought forgiveness from the people of Pakistan.

Burney told a private Pakistani television channel on Friday night, “Whatever I was doing was out of sympathy and goodwill for the old man. And I am taken aback after his confession about his being an Indian spy. All my life as the chairman of the Ansar Burney Trust I have never been cheated upon like this.

This is the first deception I have met. I had already started to have doubts about that man when he issued contradictory statements about his religious conversion. I was already under fire from the opposition that instead of fighting for the freedom of the deposed chief justice and his fellow judges, I was fighting for the freedom of Indian spies.

The damage the confession has done is that now onwards no government in Pakistan will ever give the benefit of doubt to any Indian prisoner in the Pakistani jails.”