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Lahore: 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.
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.
An autopsy will be conducted today at the Jinnah hospital where he died at 12.45 am.
His family has requested that his body be given to them and that he be given "a martyr's funeral". Indian officials are in touch with Pakistan to get Sarabjit's body back to India for last rites. The Indian High Commissioner is expected to meet the Chief Minister of the Punjab Province in Pakistan soon. ('Sarabjit wasn't a terrorist, give him a martyr's farewell,' says family)
In New Delhi, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde met Sarabjit's sister, Dalbir Kaur, and other members of his family this morning. Ms Kaur, Sarbajit's 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. (Sarabjit's family learnt of his death from media reports)
They said they had been let down by the Indian government.
India had unsuccessfully petitioned Pakistan to let the 49-year-old be sent home for treatment.
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.
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. (Time is running out, Sarabjit Singh wrote to UK-based lawyer)
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.
An autopsy will be conducted today at the Jinnah hospital where he died at 12.45 am.
His family has requested that his body be given to them and that he be given "a martyr's funeral". Indian officials are in touch with Pakistan to get Sarabjit's body back to India for last rites. The Indian High Commissioner is expected to meet the Chief Minister of the Punjab Province in Pakistan soon. ('Sarabjit wasn't a terrorist, give him a martyr's farewell,' says family)
In New Delhi, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde met Sarabjit's sister, Dalbir Kaur, and other members of his family this morning. Ms Kaur, Sarbajit's 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. (Sarabjit's family learnt of his death from media reports)
They said they had been let down by the Indian government.
India had unsuccessfully petitioned Pakistan to let the 49-year-old be sent home for treatment.
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.
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. (Time is running out, Sarabjit Singh wrote to UK-based lawyer)
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