Indian Prisoners of War languishing in jails in Pakistan since 1965.

[Sir john]

why pak did't release 65 and 71 POW?. they all are old man nows. many families still waiting for there relative release.

[Sir john]

Missing PoWs last seen in Pak jail There are many holes in Pakistan’s claims that no Indian prisoner of the 1971 war languishes in its jails. Even till 1998, Indians freed by Pakistan were carrying back accounts of maddened India soldiers&nbspheld for more than 26 years in cells reserved for the most notorious and the condemned. Balwan Singh, a former Indian spy whom Pakistan had hosted for nine years, recalled meeting Indian soldiers who had survived the brutality of 26 years of imprisonment. “There are seven jails in which the Indian Prisoners of War (PoWs) are rotated”, he told Ministry of External Affairs and Defence Ministry officials on his return to India on October 23, 1998. “The prisoners included my old neighbor, Jagdishraj, who was in Phansi ki Kothi until he was moved on.” Mohan Lal Bhaskar, Rooplal Sahariya and Bougal Ram, who also served out their terms in Pakistan, had earlier repeated similar accounts on their return home. Despite these pointers, Pakistan has continued to deny the presence of the PoWs in its jails. Brigadier Rao Abid Hamid, the then&nbsphead of the Vulnerable Prisoners Project in the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), firming a position so often bandied by the government, says: “We know it that the movement of foreign prisoners, particularly those belonging to India and Pakistan, is extremely controlled in the jails of the two countries. These prisoners are not permitted to freely move or meet others. Not that others are any better because the rules in both countries are very stringent. Therefore, we need to ponder over the authenticity of such statements.” In contrast, Asma Jahangir, a lawyer and a former chairperson of the HRCP,&nbsphad told the BBC in 1991 that she knew of “53 Indian military personnel kept as PoWs in Pakistani prisons for almost 30 years.” (In the same interview she also talked of Pakistani prisoners (“may be civilians”) in India.) Indeed, first-hand accounts such as these only serve to confirm the&nbspbelief in India that the soldiers live on in Pakistani jails. Especially for the relatives of these soldiers, these have meant reviving a dying hope of seeing their kin in the safety of their homes again. Lt Col RK Dandass had aged holding on to the hope of seeing his son Flt Lt Tanmay Dandass walk free someday. The young officer was named among the four India Air Force pilots captured by Pakistan after his MiG 21 reportedly crashed&nbspover the border near Amritsar in 1971. That, of course, was the last that was heard of him... neither was he on the International Red Cross Society’s list of PoWs that was prepared following the Shimla agreement, nor was he among the officers and soldiers who returned from Pakistan when the exchange of prisoners took place. Damayanti Tambay, a 56-year-old sports instructor with Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University, was never convinced that her husband Flt Lt Vijay Vasant Tambay had died in a reported crash during the war. In fact, she is one of those who has evidence to back her husband’s case. Every time officials and politicians challenge her claim, she fishes out a Pakistani newspaper which had named her husband among the five pilots captured alive during the war. “Of course, it has never really made an impact… some of our politicians and officials can be unintelligent, crude and brusque,” she rues. Damayanti Tambay was only 22 when her husband went to war. They had been married for just over a year. In fact, the stories of the pain and sorrow are much the same for most of the relatives of the missing soldiers. Despite that, the most visible strain among them is one of optimism, strengthened even more by the proof that providence has laid out before them. And it is to this providence that many of them have eventually turned in their hour of despair… never mind that the search for providence has led at least a few like Mrs Purohit, wife of Flt Lt Manohar Purohit, to gurus, soothsayers and just about anyone who can give them yet another hope to cling on to... For the sterner elements, however, the gods have been of a different kind and the fights have been of a different type. Indeed, in a show of their resolve to fight on, many of these relatives have come together to form an association called the Missing Defence Personnel Relatives Association (MDPRS). Inspired by the&nbspsheer steel of the late RS Suri, the MDPRS has been taking the collective voices of these aggrieved families to the doors of the powerful and the influential within the country and outside. Suri had dedicated much of his life to get the government to recognize that the missing soldiers are prisoners in Pakistan. From collecting proof of his son Major AK Suri’s presence in Pakistan to making a case for other aggrieved families, he did everything in his power to move a slow and often reluctant government machinery to try and resolve the matter. But for his struggle, the issue of the missing PoWs would have been buried and forgotten. From that virtual one-man crusade, the mission to free the PoWs under the MDPRS has grown to include even people who are not related to the missing soldiers.

[Sir john]

bossbhai i meet with some man and women they still waiting for them(relative). i feel very sad what pak will get after doing these things,

[kumble_rocks]

And to think that we have bollywood movies like Veer Zaara , I agree with BB on this one, It's pretty pathetic . Something about Paki land .. that creates these animals ! I hope India does not reciprocate and treat the Pakistani PoW in the same way. Better to kill them then torture....

[Sir john]

And to think that we have bollywood movies like Veer Zaara ' date=' I agree with BB on this one, It's pretty pathetic . Something about Paki land .. that creates these animals ! I hope India does not reciprocate and treat the Pakistani PoW in the same way. Better to kill them then torture....[/quote'] india treat very well pak pow as i know,my father is a soldier, there is a association formed by all POW relatives,but ours govt did't listen to them. one of my village soldiers is pow in pak jails from 71. i hope one day all of them get back,

[kumble_rocks]

india treat very well pak pow as i know' date='[b']my father is a soldier, there is a association formed by all POW relatives,but ours govt did't listen to them. one of my village soldiers is pow in pak jails from 71. i hope one day all of them get back,

Respect ! It's truly a great achievement to Fight for the country.

[Sir john]

Respect ! It's truly a great achievement to Fight for the country.

my village lost every time some soldiers during war,my village have 70 % male in indian army. for you info kumle rocks all my relative in indian army,except me.:nervous: