Pak diplomats visit injured prisoner Sanaullah at PGI Chandigarh

Chandigarh,May 4 (ANI): Pakistan High Commission officials visited prisoner Sanaullah, who was injured in a scuffle with another inmate in a Jammu jail, at PGI, Chandigarh, on Saturday, after India granted consular access to them last night. An External Affairs spokesman said: “Pakistan High Commission officials visited the injured prisoner Sanaullah at 3:30 a.m. They also met the attending doctor.” India had granted the consular access to Pakistani High Commission officials last night. They had also given travel permission to three officials and a driver. Sanaullah was injured during a scuffle with another inmate in Jammu jail where he was serving life term after being convicted under TADA provisions. He was arrested in 1999. A resident of Sialkot in Pakistan, Sanaullah was immediately shifted from high-security Kot Balwal jail to Government Medical College Hospital and later rushed to PGIMR in Chandigarh in an air ambulance after doctors said his condition was critical. The incident involving Sanaullah came a day after the death of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who was brutally attacked on April 26 by six Pakistani inmates in Lahore”s Kot Lakhpat Jail. (ANI)