The condition of Sanaullah Haq, a Pakistani prisoner injured in an attack by an inmate at central Jammu Jail in Indian-administered Kashmir, remains “very critical”, the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi said Saturday.
“Sanaullah’s condition remains very critical. He is on life support system in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) on ventilator. Given the severity of head injuries, his prognosis remained grim,” said a statement by the Pakistani High Commission.
Sanaullah had suffered multiple injuries to the head, and was airlifted on Friday to a government hospital in the city of Chandigarh, 250 kilometres north of New Delhi.
A spokeswoman for the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research Hospital in Chandigarh said Sanaullah was in the intensive care unit and on a ventilator as his condition “continues to remain critical”.
The Pakistani High Commission officials “came to the hospital and we have given them his medical update”, added Manju Wadwalkar, the spokeswoman of the PGIMER Hospital.
Haq was said to have entered a state of coma after the apparent tit-for-tat attack after convicted Indian spy Sarabjit Singh died after being bludgeoned with a brick by fellow inmates at a Pakistani prison.
Sanaullah, who hails from the city of Sialkot, was attacked by a prisoner who was identified as a former Indian army soldier nearly 24 hours after Singh’s death in Lahore.
Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry had termed the jail attack on Sanaullah an “obvious retaliation” for the killing of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh.
Singh died on Thursday in Pakistan and was cremated with state honours on Friday in his native village in northwestern India.
Singh had been on death row after being convicted by a Pakistani court 16 years earlier for espionage and for involvement in a string of bomb attacks in Pakistan that killed 14 people in 1990.
I am not surprised.
Revenge Indian Style
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Indians are bad!
They stopped your celebration too soon …
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@ anon.
Celebrating what? I do not celebrate the death of any human being.
This insanity must stop now.
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It stops when people take it to the heart that what goes around, comes around …
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@anon.
I see. You are one of the 'eye-4-an-eye' group. That figures.
Thinking with a cool head, I think Pakistan and India are not yet ready for friendship. They must, for the time being call of any special peace efforts and remain without fighting as indifferent neighbors. Situation could be reassessed every five years before meaningful steps towards friendship could be initiated. This is probably the best solution.
I forgot that you come from the same stock as do the tv channels of India and Pakistan.No wonder my comment has been removed.
What was this long haired guy doing in India? Also how many innocents did he kill to get those seventy virgins. look at this positively. He is one step closer to sleep with those virgins. Hoor choupo.
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