India will take up the issue of safe homecoming of Sarabjit Singh, sentenced to death in Pakistan, with Islamabad next month, his sister Dalbir Kaur said on Sunday.
AMRITSAR: India will take up the issue of safe homecoming of Sarabjit Singh, sentenced to death in Pakistan, with Islamabad next month, his sister Dalbir Kaur said on Sunday.
Dalbir said she met External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee two days back in New Delhi where he assured her to raise the issue of his safe homecoming with the Pakistan government during his visit to the neighbouring country next month.
Mukherjee is visiting Pakistan in January 2007 to invite President Pervez Musharraf to participate in the SAARC summit to be hosted by India in April next year.
Dalbir said she was quite satisfied with the assurance given by Mukherjee, who said that during his visit the matter of Sarbjit would be discussed at official level.
She said that Mukherjee also assured her that he would ask Islamabad to provide all necessary medical treatment to Sarabjit, now lodged at Kotlakhpat Rai Jail in Lahore.
"I am quite optimistic that the top leadership of the two neighbouring countries would find out the positive remedy to save the life of my brother. I understand that President Pervez Musharraf would be kind enough to find out the way for safe home coming of Sarabjit so that he could join the company of his wife, sister and two teenaged daughters," Dalbir said.
About a few months back Dalbir had received the hand written letter of Sarabjit wherein, he claimed that he was losing his eyesight and multiple images appear before his eyes and the "Pakistan Government was reluctant to provide necessary treatment inside the jail".
Though, Sarabjit's petition for mercy from death sentence, awarded to him in connection with the case relating to 1990 Lahore blast which killed 14 people, is pending, he faces one more case for three other bomb blasts.
Earlier in his petitions to various courts, including Pakistan's Supreme Court, Sarabjit said that he had inadvertently crossed the border and later caught by police and wrongly implicated in the fake cases.
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