Pak confusion: Sarabjit stays in jail
Zardari’s spokesman clarifies: It’s Surjeet who will be set free
Islamabad/Chandigarh, June 26
Hours after reports emerged that Pakistan was to free Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, the presidential spokesman clarified that authorities had taken steps for the release of another Indian prisoner named Surjeet Singh who has been jailed for three decades.

Punjab page: Pak ‘confusion’ over Sarabjit cuts short celebrations

Krishna-Khar talks put off
New Delhi, June 26
The talks between the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan, which were to be held in Islamabad in mid-July, have been postponed. However, the development has nothing to do with the arrest of Syed Zabiuddin Ansari, alias Abu Jundal, one the key plotters of the Mumbai attack.

Virbhadra quits, says ready to battle it out
New Delhi, June 26
A day after a Shimla court ordered that charges be framed against him in a corruption case, Union minister Virbhadra Singh resigned from the Cabinet today, putting a question mark on his political future in his home state Himachal Pradesh where he is seeking a sixth term as chief minister in the year-end assembly polls.

Editorial: Fresh setback to UPA
Virbhadra Singh after handing over his resignation

army hospitals
Pancreatic, lung transplants soon
Chandigarh, June 26
After a series of successful liver transplants at the Army’s Research and Referral (RR) Hospital in New Delhi, the Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS) is now planning to introduce pancreatic, lung and intestinal transplant procedures in its establishments.

Explosives seized, 7 including 3 suspected Maoists held in Ranchi
Ranchi, June 26
Over 13,000 detonators and one tonne explosives were recovered and seven persons, including three who are suspected Maoists, were arrested in Ranchi district, police said today. On a tip-off, police raided some places at Tupudana on the outskirts of Ranchi and recovered the explosives last night, Senior Superintendent of Police Saket Kumar Singh told reporters here.