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| Nirmal Kour wants to visit Pak jails to search Subedar Assa Singh | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 13
Family members of Subedar Assa Singh, one of the 54 prisoners of war (PoW) and his wife after returning empty handed from the house of Kashmir Singh, recently released from Pakistan jail, has decided to plead before Prime Minister,Dr Manmohan Singh to once again take up the issue with new Government in Islamabad for the purpose of locating Assa Singh and other prisoners of war.
Wife of Assa Singh, 70 year old Nirmal Kour today said that she want to visit Pakistan again so that she could search her husband in the Pak Army jails. “we shall renew our efforts”adding that “when we visited several jails in Pakistan in June last,we were not allowed to visit Army jails.We have information that Assa Singh has been lodged in some Army jail.”,Kour said.
Nirmal Kaur and her son, Harcharan Singh who had accompanied his mother to Hoshiarpur,said that “ recently we interacted with Kashmir Singh but he did not disclose any details.He said when we requested Kashmir Singh to say something about Subedar Assa Singh he avoided a direct reply.” They Kashmir Singh told them that he had never met Assa Singh or any other Indian war prisoner.
Harcharan Singh said that Kashmir Singh was trying to “hide things” for reason known to him only. He said several Indian prisoners,including Bhogal Ram,who had been released from Pakistani jails had confirmed that they alongwith Kashmir Singh used to take meals in the mess in Kot Lakhpat jail together.This statement had been made by Bhogal Ram and others years before the release of Kashmir Singh.
Nirmal Kaur suspected that either Kashmir Singh was hiding things on his own or he was under pressure from some agencies.She cited several letters she had received from Pakistani in which the writers had confirmed that Subedar Assa Singh,who was taken as a prisoner of war when he was posted in the battle front in Chhamb sector in Jammu in 1971,was alive and in Kot Lakhpat Jail.
She said “we have decided to get in touch with Kashmir Singh’s son,who had come from Italy to meet his father,so that he could arrange a separate sitting for us with Kashmir Singh.” |
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