India to take up Sarabjit issue

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.
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 (Sarabjit’s) 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 Sarabjit 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.—Agencies
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.