The family of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian death-row prisoner who was assaulted by inmates in Kot Lakhpat Jail and is currently under treatment at the Jinnah Hospital, arrived in the city on Sunday.
The Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi has issued 15-day gratis visas to four members of Sarabjit’s family – his wife Sukhbir Kaur, sister Dalbir Kaur and daughters Poonam and Swapandeep Kaur – to meet the comatose Indian prisoner who is battling for his life on a ventilator at the Jinnah Hospital.
Talking to the journalists at the Wahgah Border, Sarabjit’s wife appealed to the Pakistani government to provide best treatment to her husband and also hoped for his pardon and release on humanitarian grounds.
Sarabjit, who was arrested following a bomb blast in Lahore in 1990 that had killed 14 people and was consequently sentenced to death on espionage charges, was rushed to the Jinnah Hospital on Friday with multiple wounds, including a severe head injury, after his fellow inmates hit him with bricks, following an altercation.
DOCTORS SAY HE IS CRITICAL: “Sarabjit’s condition is critical with multiple wounds to his head, abdomen, jaws and other body parts, and he has been put on ventilator,” said a doctor in Jinnah Hospital. “He is fighting for his life in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), and the next 24 hours are critical. He needs surgery but the doctors are not performing it because they don’t want to take any chances and want him to stabilise.”
SARABJIT’S FAMILY AT THE HOSPITAL: The family of the Indian spy visited him in the ICU of Jinnah Hospital soon after reaching Pakistan from India via Wahgah Border on Sunday afternoon. The family was received by Sarabjit’s lawyer Awais Sheikh, who accompanied them to the hospital where hospital’s medical superintendent Sheikh Ijaz briefed them about Sarabjit’s condition.
Sarabjit’s sister Dalbir Kaur thanked the people of Pakistan for their prayers for her brother’s recovery and hoped that he would get well soon and be allowed to return to India.
Sarabjit’s lawyer said that the Indian High Commission has arranged for the stay of Sarabjit’s family at the Avari Hotel. Sarabjit’s family stayed at the hospital for half an hour.
Aap pakistaniyo ko ye mehsoos nahi hota ki aap sabhi log kayar ho?
Look how Pakistan is soft in its policies towards is neighbours.But shame for India how cruel and unfreindly policies they are adopting.India must be liberal and justified dealings and sensible human behaviours towards Pakistan and to people of its occupied Kashmiris.
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