The Pakistan Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) said on Saturday that Sarabjit Singh’s lawyer, Awais Sheikh, and his family have been receiving threatening letters and calls from the Taliban.
The commission urged the chief minister of Punjab to provide security to Sheikh.
The panel also said that a CID official tried to kidnap Sheikh in Pakistan a day before Sarabjit’s death, when he went to Wagah border to see Sarabjit’s family off.
Sarabjit Singh, 49, was a death row convict at the Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore. On Friday, a group of other prisoners hit him on his head with bricks after which he was taken to Lahore’s Jinnah Hospital in a comatose state and was on a ventilator until he died on Thursday.
Sarabjit was sentenced to death for planting bombs in Punjab which killed 14 people in 1990. His family said he was innocent and that he had strayed across the border into Pakistan in a drunken state.
