PAKISTAN: Family of Sarabjit Singh arrive in Pakistan, two days after the Indian prisoner convicted of spying was attacked and seriously injured by fellow inmates in a Pakistani jali

Record ID: 353847

  • Title: PAKISTAN: Family of Sarabjit Singh arrive in Pakistan, two days after the Indian prisoner convicted of spying was attacked and seriously injured by fellow inmates in a Pakistani jali
  • Date: 28th April 2013
  • Summary: ATTARI-WAGAH, PUNJAB, PAKISTAN (APRIL 28, 2013) (REUTERS) VEHICLE NEAR THE MAIN GATE OF THE WAGAH BORDER WITH THE SIGNBOARD ABOVE READING 'INDIA' MAIN GATE ENTRANCE OF THE PAKISTANI SIDE WITH THE PAKISTANI NATIONAL FLAG OVER IT PAKISTANI NATIONAL FLAG FAMILY MEMBERS OF INDIAN PRISONER IN PAKISTAN, SARABJIT SINGH, ARRIVING PERSON ACCOMPANYING THE FAMILY MEMBERS SINGH'S DAUG
  • Embargoed: 13th May 2013 13:00
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  • Location: Pakistan
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Topics: Crime,International Relations,Politics,People
  • Reuters ID: LVA7Y8NZIEN1NPPT1V4I0DC3FBDL
  • Story Text: The family of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who was brutally attacked in Kot Lakhpat jail in Lahore, arrived in Pakistan after crossing through the Wagah border in northern India on Sunday (April 28).
    Singh was hospitalised on Friday (April 26) with a serious head injury, a doctor said, after two fellow prisoners attacked him in Lahore.
    Family members including Sarabjit Singh's sister Dalbir Kaur, wife Sukhpreet Kaur and daughters Swapandeep Kaur and Poonam Kaur crossed the Attari-Wagah border at Amritsar in India's northern Punjab state on Sunday afternoon and entered Pakistan.
    The family were heading to Lahore City in Pakistan where Singh is being treated in a hospital.
    Singh's sister Dalbir Kaur said that she was grief-stricken as the family arrived in the country.
    "We have come to Pakistan. I wish I could have come to receive my brother in good health, as I had met him on earlier occasions when I found him in good conditions. But today it is a sad state for me and my family that I have come in to see my brother when he is badly injured. We have been informed that he is in a coma. I was worried that he has left his family behind him. How can he leave us like this? He has to come back home," she said.
    Singh was arrested in Pakistan in 1991 and sentenced to death for spying and carrying out four bomb blasts that killed 14 people. His family says he is innocent.
    Four years ago, Pakistan's then-president Pervez Musharraf stayed the execution after appeals for clemency from India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
    Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan have fought three wars since the partition of British-ruled India in 1947, but they began a peace process in 2004.
    Despite better relations, the neighbours remain deeply suspicious of each other.
    India blamed Pakistani militants for carrying the 2008 attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people over three days and raised questions over the involvement of Pakistani security services.
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