New Delhi: Hope for Sarabjit Singh, sentenced to death in Pakistan for alleged involvement in a bomb blast, grows stronger. Sources in Pakistan's PMO told CNN-IBN that Sarabjit’s family might meet Musharraf on Thursday.
There are positive indications that President Pervez Musharraf will consider Sarabjit's mercy plea.
The Pakistan government has said in the last sixty years neither India nor Pakistan has hanged anybody.
Sarabjit's family members are hoping to meet him on Thursday. Eighteen years since he's been on death row. They are also likely to meet the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister.
Sources say Sarabjit's petition has been sent to the President's office and a summary will be put before Musharraf in a day or two by the Legal Department of the president's office.
However, Musharraf’s spokesman Major General (retired) Rashid Qureshi has said that a mercy petition received by the presidency some time ago from Sarabjit's family had been forwarded to the interior ministry.
Former Pakistani human rights minister Ansar Burney had said on Monday that he had submitted a fresh mercy petition on behalf of Sarabjit to Musharraf, asking for his death sentence to be converted to life imprisonment, as the case against him was ‘weak’.
The execution of Sarabjit was deferred for 30 days by Musharraf last month so that Pakistan's new government could review his case following an appeal for clemency from the Indian government.
Meanwhile, Sarabjit's wife Sukhpreet Kaur and his daughters Swapandeep and Poonam, who arrived in Lahore on Wednesday, were still awaiting permission to meet him in the Kot Lakhpat jail.
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