kondeti Posted May 2, 2013 Report Posted May 2, 2013 [b] Sarabjit Singh dies in Lahore, Pakistan agrees to send body back[/b] [b]Lahore: [/b][color=#000000][font=Georgia,]Sarabjit Singh, the Indian who was attacked in a prison in Pakistan where he spent 22 years after being convicted of terrorism, died early this morning at a Lahore hospital after a cardiac arrest. Pakistan has agreed to send his body back to India.[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Georgia,] [/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Georgia,]The 49-year-old was admitted there on Friday with severe brain injuries after a group of inmates hit him on the head with bricks and pieces of tin. Doctors had warned from the start that his recovery was unlikely; he was comatose and on ventilator support. [/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Georgia,] [/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Georgia,]An autopsy will be conducted today at the Jinnah hospital where he died at 12.45 am.[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Georgia,] [/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Georgia,]Expressing grief over Sarabjit's death, PM Manmohan Singh regretted that "Pakistan did not heed pleas of India and Sarabjit's family for taking a humanitarian view in this case."[/font][/color][url="http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/sarabjit-singh-dies-pakistan-did-not-heed-pleas-of-india-say-pm-361630"] (Pakistan did not heed pleas of India, say PM)[/url] [color=#000000][font=Georgia,]Sarabjit family has requested that he be given "a martyr's funeral". His sister, Dalbir Kaur, his wife and two daughters, who were given emergency visas to visit him, returned to India on Wednesday afternoon after being told that his coma appeared irreversible. They said they had been let down by the Indian government. [/font][/color][url="http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/sarabjit-was-not-a-terrorist-give-him-a-martyr-s-farewell-says-family-361594"]('Sarabjit wasn't a terrorist, give him a martyr's farewell,' says family)[/url][color=#000000][font=Georgia,] | [/font][/color][url="http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/sarabjit-singh-s-family-learnt-of-death-from-media-reports-361597"] (Sarabjit's family learnt of his death from media reports)[/url] [color=#000000][font=Georgia,]Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde met Sarabjit's family in New Delhi a little while ago and said the government was making all efforts to get his body back home for last rites. [/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Georgia,]The Indian High Commissioner is expected to meet the Chief Minister of the Punjab Province in Pakistan soon.[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Georgia,]India had unsuccessfully petitioned Pakistan to let the 49-year-old be sent home for treatment. [/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Georgia,] [/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Georgia,]Pakistan has over the years maintained that Mr Singh was a terrorist. He was given the death sentence in 1991 for bombings a year earlier in Lahore and Multan in which 14 people were killed.[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Georgia,] [/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Georgia,]His sister who had campaigned for years for his release has said he inadvertently crossed the border into Pakistan and his conviction was a case of mistaken identity. She has also said that the attack last week was pre-planned and that she had reported to the Indian authorities earlier that there was a threat to Sarabjit's life. [/font][/color][url="http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/time-is-running-out-sarabjit-singh-wrote-to-her-361601"](Time is running out, Sarabjit Singh wrote to UK-based lawyer)[/url] RIP
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