Sarabjit’s family to visit Pakistan on Sunday
Amritsar/New Delhi: Four members of Sarabjit Singh’s family will travel to Pakistan on Sunday to meet the death row convict who is battling for life in Lahore after being brutally assaulted by jail inmates.
The Pakistan High Commission in Delhi has issued 15 days ‘gratis visa’ to Sarabjit’s wife Sukhpreet Kaur, daughters Poonam, Swapandeep Kaur and his sister Dalbir Kaur. Sarabjit is in “deep coma” and has been put on ventilator support.
Sarabjit, 49, was convicted for alleged involvement in a string of bomb attacks in Punjab province in Pakistan, that killed 14 people in 1990.
Two Indian High Commission officials got consular access to Sarabjit Singh in the ICU of Jinnah Hospital on Saturday morning. “The officials of India’s High Commission in Islamabad obtained access to Sarabjit in the ICU of Jinnah hospital, Lahore at 2:00 am,” External Affairs Ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin said.
“Doctors attending to Sarabjit Singh informed the Indian officials that he is in coma on ventilator and receiving IV drip,” he said. The Indian mission had contacted Pakistan’s Foreign Office on Friday night to seek consular access. The two Indian officials went to the hospital and spent some time with Sarabjit. They then drove away from the hospital without speaking to the media. Security has been beefed up at the hospital, where dozens of police commandos have been deployed. Indian High Commission officials were in regular contact with the Medical Board attending to Sarabjit. – See more at: http://post.jagran.com/sarabjits-kin-to-visit-lahore-on-sunday-1367071406#sthash.c8GfQuIC.dpufS
