Dalbir Kaur,
sister of Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh who died Thursday
following a brutal assault in a Lahore jail, has asked all political
parties to come together and strengthen the government’s hands.
“Sarabjit
gave up his life for the country. He was martyred for India. (Pakistan
President Asif Ali) Zardari killed him because of elections,” Dalbir Kaur told reporters here.
She
said: “The entire country should come together. I appeal to all parties
to make the hands of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister
Sushilkumar Shinde stronger.”
Dalbir Kaur demanded that all visas of visiting Pakistani human rights activists be cancelled.
She
said Shinde has assured her that the government was with the family in
all matters and answers would be sought from Pakistan on a variety of
issues.
“I left Pakistan as nurses and doctors used to laugh at
me. They knew that you can ask about the health of a person only when he
is alive and this person (Sarabjit) is dead,” she said.
Dalbir
Kaur, who along with Sarabjit’s family had gone to Pakistan after he was
admitted to a Lahore hospital following a savage attack on him in a
Lahore jail April 26, returned Wednesday.
She claimed that Sarabjit had written to her that Pakistani authorities had asked him to undergo training in terror camps. “I travelled in trains, buses and went from pillar to post to bring back Sarabjit, but I failed.”
Sarabjit
Singh, who was admitted to a Lahore hospital April 26 after being
savagely attacked in jail, died early Thursday. He had suffered serious
head injuries and had been on ventilator support since then.
Sarabjit
Singh had been on a death row in Pakistan since 1990 after being
convicted by Pakistani courts for bomb blasts in Lahore and Multan that
left 14 people dead.
