Back from the dead in Lahore

After more than seven years in Pakistan’s Lahore Central Jail, Ghulam Rabbani Sarkar, whose family had almost given him up for dead, returned home this Monday. In March this year, the 33-year-old was first allowed by the jailers to write home. It was this letter that his father took to Union water resources minister and local MP Priya Ranjan Das Munshi, who managed to persuade the Indian foreign ministry to take up the matter with its Pakistani counterpart.

As a result of the talks, Rabbani walked across the international border at Wagah and into the arms of his elder brother Ayub Ali Rabbani, who waited on the Indian side, on August 31…