Pakistani human rights activist Ansar Burney welcomed the Supreme Court's decision to release Khalil Chisty on bail on humanitarian grounds.
Welcoming the Supreme Court's decision to release Khalil Chisty on bail on humanitarian grounds, Pakistani human rights activist Ansar Burney on Friday said he will file a fresh plea next week seeking permission to allow the 80-year-old to return to Pakistan.
"I am ready to give security and guarantee for Chisty so we are going to move an application in the Supreme Court for allowing him to return to Pakistan to meet his family," the Pakistani activist told reporters here.
His statement came as Pakistan Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari ordered authorities there to take "every possible step" to bring home Chisty.
The Pakistani scientist, who was serving life sentence in Ajmeer jail in a two-decade-old murder case after his conviction in January last year, was granted bail on Monday by India's Supreme Court, a day after authorities from the two countries discussed his case during Zardari's visit to India.
Burney, who has been actively campaigning to save the life of Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh, said they were first making all efforts to get his sentenced commuted.
However, he maintained that Sarabjit's case was different from Chisty's and cautioned that comparing them might harm prospects of the Indian.
"We are making efforts to get death sentence of Sarabjit commuted to life imprisonment for which I recently submitted a fresh application to the President of Pakistan," Burney said at a press conference here.
"Once the sentence is commuted, we are hopeful that this way will pave way for his early release because he has already spent more than 21 long years in jail. A day in cell for those who face death sentence is equal to a year spent in normal prison," he said.
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