Khalil Chishti

• Pakistani scientist Dr Khalil Chishty acquitted of murder by Supreme Court

  The Supreme Court today freed Pakistani microbiologist Dr Mohammad Khalil Chisti in connection with a murder case. The court said Dr Chishty has already spent one year and four months in prison and no further custody is required.

• Chishti returns home, calls it a fresh lease of life

  Pakistan's ailing virologist Khalil Chishti had an emotional reunion with his family, 20 years after he had left for a fateful trip to India, as hundreds welcomed him on a homecoming that he described as a "fresh lease of life".Mr Chishti arrived to moving and tearful scenes at the Karachi airport where hundreds of people had gathered to welcome hi...

• Dr Khalil Chisty leaves for Pakistan, wishes to meet Sarabjit Singh

  Dr Khalil Chishty, an 80-year-old Pakistani virologist who has spent many years at a prison in Ajmer, left for New Delhi from Ajmer today as he set out on his journey back home after 20 years.

• After 20 years, Dr Khalil Chishty permitted to return to Pak

  Dr Khalil Chishty, an 80-year-old Pakistani virologist who has spent many years at a prison in Ajmer, has been allowed by the Supreme Court to travel to his home in Karachi.

• Zardari writes to PM, asks for Chishti's repatriation

  President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to allow the release and repatriation on humanitarian grounds of Khalil Chishti, an 80-year-old Pakistani given a life sentence in India after being convicted for murder.

• Zardari orders release of Indian fisherman from Pakistani jail

  Just hours after Pakistani scientist Dr Khalil Chishty walked out of the Ajmer Jail after being granted bail by the Supreme Court, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has ordered the immediate release of an Indian fisherman.

• Dr Khalil Chishty walks out of jail

  Dr Khalil Chishty, a Pakistani scientist who has been fighting a legal battle in India for two decades is finally a free man today. He walked out of the Ajmer Jail at 4:30 pm, after his brother Jameel Chishty furnished two bail bonds of Rs 50,000 each and a personal surety of Rs 1 lakh. The 80 year old doctor from Pakistan entered the Ajmer Jail l...

• Dr Khalil Chishty likely to be released from Ajmer jail today

  Dr Khalil Chishty, a Pakistani scientist who has spent many years at a prison in Ajmer is likely to walk out of jail today. He was granted bail by the Supreme Court on Monday. The Supreme Court order for Dr Chishty's bail has reached Ajmer, but will first have to be presented in the Ajmer sessions court.

• Who is Khalil Chishty?

  In April 1992, Dr Khalil Chishty, a virologist from Karachi visited his ailing mother in Ajmer. Dr Chishty did not know that he would not return home to Pakistan for the next two decades.

• Dr Khalil Chishty gets bail, Supreme Court to hear his appeal to return to Pak

  Dr Khalil Chishty, a Pakistani scientist who has spent many years at a prison in Ajmer has been granted bail by the Supreme Court. Human rights activists have been pleading for assistance for him for years.

• Supreme Court to hear Khalil Chishty's bail plea today

  The Supreme Court will today hear a bail petition by Khalil Chishty, who is lodged at the Ajmer Central Jail in connection with a murder case. Dr Chishty is an 80-year-old Pakistani virologist and has been in jail for years.

• Pak doctor Khalil Chishty's family meets him in prison

  The wife and other family members of Pakistani doctor Khalil Chishty, who is undergoing life sentence in the Ajmer Central Jail in a murder case, met him in prison on Saturday.

• Pak prisoner's family in India to plead for his release

  The family of ailing Pakistani prisoner Dr Khalil Chishty has come to India all the way from Karachi to plead for his release. The 78-year old virologist, who is critically ill, is serving life sentence in the Ajmer Central Jail. His mercy plea has been given clearance by the Rajasthan Chief Minister, but he has still not been released.

• SM Krishna commits a faux pas in Parliament over Pakistani prisoner

  External Affairs Minister SM Krishna committed a faux pas in Parliament on Thursday. Speaking in the Rajya Sabha, Mr Krishna got confused about a Pakistani prisoner Dr Chishti, who is in currently lodged in jail in Rajasthan.

• Pakistani prisoner, 80, moves closer to release

  The mercy plea of Mohammad Khalil Chishty, an 80-year-old Pakistani citizen serving life sentence in the Ajmer Central Jail, has been given clearance by the Rajasthan home department, sources in the department said on Friday.