Date:31/05/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/05/31/stories/2008053160551000.htm

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Burney deported by mistake?

New Delhi: Ansar Burney, the leading Pakistani human rights activist who fought for the release of Indian death row prisoners Kashmir Singh and Sarabjit Singh in Pakistan, on Friday night was “deported’ from here back to Dubai.

Mr. Burney, who was the Human Rights Minister in the interim government in Pakistan, was deported back from the Indira Gandhi International Airport by an Emirates Airways flight at around 8.30 p.m. because of a “look-out” notice against him, sources said.

Home Ministry officials, however, could not say who issued the notice. Sources in the MEA said the deportation could have been due to “some mistake.” — PTI