Islamabad, May. 2 (ANI): Pakistan”s Foreign Office (FO) has said that the government will continue to facilitate for the early completion of all formalities and hand over the mortal remains of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh to the Indian High Commission at the earliest. According to the FO spokesman, Pakistan had been providing all assistance to the family of Sarabjit and to the Indian authorities since the occurrence of the “unfortunate incident”, reports Geo News.
He said the prisoner‚ who had been in a comatose state and on a ventilator for the last few days‚ was being provided the best treatment available and the medical staff at Jinnah Hospital had been working round the clock since his hospitalization to save his life. Despite their best efforts‚ they could not save him and Sarabjit passed away due to cardiac arrest, the spokesman added. Sarabjit, 49, sustained several injuries, including a skull fracture, when six prisoners attacked him in Kot Lakhpat Jail on Friday afternoon. He was hit on the head with bricks and his neck and torso cut with sharp weapons. He was convicted of alleged involvement in a string of bomb attacks in Punjab province that killed 14 people in 1990. His mercy petitions were rejected by the courts and former president Pervez Musharraf. The outgoing Pakistan Peoples Party-led government put off Sarabjit”s execution for an indefinite period in 2008. Sarabjit”s family says he is the victim of mistaken identity and had inadvertently strayed across the border in an inebriated state. (ANI)