Pakistani attacked in Indian jail

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A Pakistani prisoner suffered serious head injuries on Friday after being attacked in an Indian jail in apparent tit-for-tat violence following the death of an Indian inmate Sarabjit Singh in Pakistan, a prison official said.

“He has been admitted in GMC Hospital with grievous head injuries,” an official at the main prison in the northwestern city of Jammu said.

The inmate, named as Sanaullah, was attacked early in the morning by other inmates, the official said, a day after India’s home ministry ordered stepped-up security for hundreds of Pakistanis in Indian prisons.

On Thursday, Sarabjit Singh, an Indian in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat prison, who was jailed 16 years ago for spying and deadly bombings, died as a result of a savage assault by inmates.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh condemned that “barbaric and murderous attack” and New Delhi complained that its diplomats were denied access to the prisoner as he fought for his life.

Singh is to be cremated with state honours near his native village in northwestern Punjab state on Friday.

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    • no, you are not the only one. I feel disgusted as an Indian. Yesterday Indian govt. directed all prisons to increase the security of all Pakistani prisoners in India, still such a thing happens. Whatever their crimes are, human dignity is above all. Punish them according to the law of the land. Such barbarism should not be tolerated anywhere. Hope this man walks out of the hospital.

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