India ‘deports Ansar Burney’

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ISLAMABAD, May 30: Former federal minister for human rights Ansar Burney, who got Indian death-row prisoner Kashmir Singh released and repatriated to India and the execution of another death-row convict, Sarabjeet Singh, delayed, was deported from New Delhi on Friday night, television reports said.

The Online news agency quoted sources here as saying that Mr Burney had been sent back from the Indira Gandhi International Airport by an Emirates flight to Dubai because of a ‘lookout’ notice against him.

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