New Delhi: The last rites of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who died of a cardiac arrest in a Lahore hospital in the wee hours of Thursday, will be performed in his village Bhikhiwind in Punjab on Friday. Sarabjit was in a coma after he was attacked by six of his fellow inmates in a high-security jail in Lahore.
Sarabjit was convicted of alleged involvement in a string of bomb attacks in Punjab province that killed 14 people in 1990 and had spent about 22 years in Pakistan prisons. His mercy petitions were rejected by the courts and former president Pervez Musharraf. The previous Pakistan People's Party-led government put off Sarabjit's execution for an indefinite period in 2008. Sarabjit's family claims he was the victim of mistaken identity and had inadvertently strayed across the border in an inebriated state.
Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, Sarabjit's sister Dalbir Kaur said "Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has assured me that Sarabjit will be given state honours. His last rites will be performed on Friday." Shinde visited the family of Sarabjit in New Delhi on Thursday morning.
She called Pakistan a "coward" and said time has come to wage a war against it. Kaur appealed to all countrymen to unite and attack Pakistan.
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