Lahore
/ Amritsar: The Indian distraught family condemned to death Sarabjit
Singh, who was brutally assaulted in a prison in Lahore last week, is
likely to return home on Wednesday after doctors have indicated that
apparently was "clinically dead".
A judicial panel comprising India and Pakistan lawyers visited Sarabjit Singh of Lahore Jinnah hospital Tuesday night, said the ministry of foreign affairs.
Raj Kumar Verka, vice president of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes, Amritsar said Tuesday that spoke Dalbir Kaur sister of Sarabjit, who said doctors have told him that Sarabjit was "brain dead".
"I believe that Sarabjit had died earlier. Why the Pakistani government has to do this drama (to allow the family to visit him in Lahore), when he was gone? Sought permission to remove the fan," Verka, which was instrumental in obtaining visas for the four family members of Sarabjit Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi Saturday, told the media.
From Sarabjit lawyer Awais Sheikh told a news channel Lahore Sarabjit's sister had expressed the desire of the family to return to India.
"After the doctors told him about the condition of Sarabjit, first told me he wanted back today (Tuesday). But later, in his hotel, they said they'll come back tomorrow (Wednesday) morning," said Sheikh channel.
Sarabjit Singh, 49, was admitted to a hospital in Lahore in critical condition after a fierce attack on him by his fellow prisoners in Kot Lakhpat Jail April 26. He has been on ventilator support since.
India Monday called on Pakistan to free Sarabjit although a medical board in Pakistan, said he would continue treatment in Pakistan and moved out.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in New Delhi had asked Pakistan to have a vision "understanding and humanitarian" in Sarabjit.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Salman Khurshid, said Tuesday he was "very broken and sad" about the condition of Sarabjit and "My concern is about your life and can only pray that comes through this and survive and are able to continue our fight to return home. has suffered enough, "he told NDTV news channel.
He said India "has offered medical assistance, which is offered in India for treatment" but that depended on the decision of the medical board Pakistan.
Opposition leader Sushma Swaraj accused the government of failing to deal with Islamabad "firmly" on the subject.
"What happened to Sarabjit in Pakistan, India has not spoken with the same firmness with them (government of Pakistan) as we should have," he said.
Dalbir Kaur, Sarabjit's wife Sukhpreet Kaur and daughters Swapandeep and Poonam, crossed from the checkpoint Attari-Wagah border to Pakistan Sunday afternoon to visit him in a hospital in Lahore.
He has been on death row in Pakistan since 1990 after being convicted by the courts Pakistani bombings in Lahore and Multan that left 14 dead.
Sarabjit's family says he is innocent, and he crossed to Pakistan in August 1990 while intoxicated and was arrested there.
Pakistan police, however, said that Sarabjit Singh, known there as Manjit Singh, was involved in the terrorist attacks.
A judicial panel comprising India and Pakistan lawyers visited Sarabjit Singh of Lahore Jinnah hospital Tuesday night, said the ministry of foreign affairs.
Raj Kumar Verka, vice president of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes, Amritsar said Tuesday that spoke Dalbir Kaur sister of Sarabjit, who said doctors have told him that Sarabjit was "brain dead".
"I believe that Sarabjit had died earlier. Why the Pakistani government has to do this drama (to allow the family to visit him in Lahore), when he was gone? Sought permission to remove the fan," Verka, which was instrumental in obtaining visas for the four family members of Sarabjit Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi Saturday, told the media.
From Sarabjit lawyer Awais Sheikh told a news channel Lahore Sarabjit's sister had expressed the desire of the family to return to India.
"After the doctors told him about the condition of Sarabjit, first told me he wanted back today (Tuesday). But later, in his hotel, they said they'll come back tomorrow (Wednesday) morning," said Sheikh channel.
Sarabjit Singh, 49, was admitted to a hospital in Lahore in critical condition after a fierce attack on him by his fellow prisoners in Kot Lakhpat Jail April 26. He has been on ventilator support since.
India Monday called on Pakistan to free Sarabjit although a medical board in Pakistan, said he would continue treatment in Pakistan and moved out.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in New Delhi had asked Pakistan to have a vision "understanding and humanitarian" in Sarabjit.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Salman Khurshid, said Tuesday he was "very broken and sad" about the condition of Sarabjit and "My concern is about your life and can only pray that comes through this and survive and are able to continue our fight to return home. has suffered enough, "he told NDTV news channel.
He said India "has offered medical assistance, which is offered in India for treatment" but that depended on the decision of the medical board Pakistan.
Opposition leader Sushma Swaraj accused the government of failing to deal with Islamabad "firmly" on the subject.
"What happened to Sarabjit in Pakistan, India has not spoken with the same firmness with them (government of Pakistan) as we should have," he said.
Dalbir Kaur, Sarabjit's wife Sukhpreet Kaur and daughters Swapandeep and Poonam, crossed from the checkpoint Attari-Wagah border to Pakistan Sunday afternoon to visit him in a hospital in Lahore.
He has been on death row in Pakistan since 1990 after being convicted by the courts Pakistani bombings in Lahore and Multan that left 14 dead.
Sarabjit's family says he is innocent, and he crossed to Pakistan in August 1990 while intoxicated and was arrested there.
Pakistan police, however, said that Sarabjit Singh, known there as Manjit Singh, was involved in the terrorist attacks.