Indian activists from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hold an effigy of Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari as they are blocked by police as they march towards the Indo-Pakistan Wagah Border Post during a protest against the Pakistani government and the Pakistani inmates who killed Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh in Amritsar on May 5, 2013. Sarabjit Singh, an Indian convicted 16 years ago in Pakistan for spying and deadly bombings, died May 2, 2013, after being beaten in a Lahore prison, sparking a furious response from Indian politicians.
A demonstrator jumps over a burning effigy depicting Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, during a protest after the death of Sarabjit Singh, who was convicted of spying for India and sentenced to death in Pakistan, in Kolkata May 2, 2013. India reacted furiously to Thursday's death in a Pakistani jail of an Indian farmer convicted of spying who was badly beaten last week by fellow inmates, the latest incident to strain relations between the neighbours. Singh was arrested in Pakistan in 1991 and sentenced to death for spying and carrying out four bomb blasts that killed 14 people. His family says he was an innocent farmer who was arrested after drunkenly wandering over the border.
Indian activists burn an effigy of Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari to protest against the killing of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh in Kolkata on May 2, 2013. An Indian man on death row in Pakistan for spying died nearly a week after he was attacked by fellow prisoners, who were swiftly charged with murder as New Delhi demanded justice. Sarabjit Singh, who was sentenced 16 years ago over alleged involvement in a deadly bombings, died in the early hours as a result of the savage assault in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat jail, a senior doctor at Jinnah hospital in the eastern city told.
Indian activists burn an effigy Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari as they shout anti-Pakistan slogans during a protest in New Delhi on April 27, 2013. An Indian national facing the death penalty in Pakistan on espionage charges was rushed to hospital on Friday after suffering serious injuries in a clash with fellow prisoners, officials said. Sarbajeet Singh was wounded in a quarrel with other prisoners on death row in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail, provincial prisons chief Farooq Nazir said.
(L-R) Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov and Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon applaud as they attend the celebrations of Nowruz (New Year) outside Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan, on March 21, 2013. Iran began yesterday the Persian New Year or Nowruz with its most senior, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, asking the people to stand up to piling Western economic sanctions and also warning that the pressure was unlikely to ease.
An ice cream vendor passes by a banner featuring portraits of Pakistan' s President Asif Ali Zardari and Bhutto's family members along a street in Islamabad on March 20, 2013. Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari announced on March 20 that general elections would be held on May 11, in what will mark the first democratic transition of power in the country's history.
