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LAHORE/AMRITSAR: With doctors
in a Lahore hospital saying that
chances of survival of Indian
death row prisoner Sarabjit
Singh, who was brutally
assaulted by fellow inmates, were "slim", his family on Sunday
pleaded for help from the Indian
government and prayed for his
life. Sarabjit's family arrived in Lahore city of Pakistan from Amritsar on Sunday
afternoon to be with him. After meeting him at
the Jinnah Hospital, the family pleaded that he be
allowed to be taken back to India or any other
country immediately for treatment. "When we met him in the ICU, he was just lying
there. Doctors told us that his condition was
critical. Please help us to save my brother's life,"
Sarabjit's elder sister Dalbir Kaur said in Lahore.
She is accompanied by his wife Sukhpreet Kaur,
and two daughters, Swapandeep and Poonam. Doctors at the hospital said that Sarabjit's
condition was "critical" and "chances of his
survival are slim". "His daughters called him out 'Papa'. His wife
called out to him. But he lay there like a stone. I
could not understand what to say," said Dalbir
Kaur. "I plead to our government with folded hands.
Please take him to any country for his treatment.
Don't waste time, save him. So far, when I tried
to fight for his freedom, I only got hollow
assurances," she said. "He is completely unconscious. He does not know
anything. He is on ventilator," Dalbir Kaur said,
adding that she could feel his breath and heart
beat. Sarabjit, 49, suffered critical head injuries in the
assault by four to five prisoners with bricks and
prison plates in Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore on
Friday. He has been in Pakistan prisons for over
22 years. "I want to know how the iron rods, bricks,
cutters and other things reached inside the
prison to carry out the attack on Sarabjit. It was a
big conspiracy," Dalbir Kaur said. Sarabjit's lawyer
in Pakistan, Awais Shiekh, also alleged that
Sarabjit was attacked under a conspiracy. "Singh was diagnosed on Saturday with 3/15
Glasgow coma scale (GCS); that elaborates upon
his critical state," one of the doctors treating him
told the Dawn. The doctor said the GCS was a neurological scale
aimed at assessing level of consciousness after
profound head injury and the reading of 3/15
indicated deep unconsciousness. The doctor, who was not named, told the Dawn
that Sarabjit had suffered a critical bone fracture
when he was taken to the Jinnah Hospital's
surgical emergency Friday evening. During clinical assessment, it was established that
Sarabjit had diffused brain injury over a
widespread area of his head that led to
unconsciousness. Doctors said that surgical intervention cannot be
carried out till Sarabjit's condition improves. Sarabjit is being kept in a separate intensive care
unit in unprecedented police security and no one
is being allowed to see him except doctors. First secretary in the Indian high commission in
Islamabad CS Das paid a visit to the hospital. Before crossing over to Pakistan from the Attari-
Wagah checkpost on the international border,
30km from Amritsar, Sarabjit's family offered
prayers at Harmandir Sahib, popularly known as
Golden Temple, on Sunday morning. "We are going there with lots of hopes. We want
to bring him back hale and hearty. His condition
is such that there is some fear in our hearts. We
have offered prayers to the almighty to help him
recover fast," said Dalbir Kaur. In New Delhi, the National Commission for
Scheduled Castes summoned officials of the
ministries of external affairs and home over the
issue of helping Sarabjit. It also directed the
government to send a team of specialist Indian
doctors to Pakistan for Sarabjit's treatment, commission vice-chairman Raj Kumar Verka said. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Sunday said that
the United Progressive Alliance (UPA)
government had failed to ensure safety of
Sarabjit and demanded that he be immediately
brought back to India for treatment. "There has been inaction on the part of the Indian
government in Sarabjit Singh's case. Despite
being given information by his family that he
might be attacked and was threatened in jail, the
Indian government remained silent and did not
ensure his security," BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said. A leading Pakistani daily, News International said
Sunday that the Sarabjit incident was a "sad one". In Mumbai, the Pakistan-India Peoples' Forum for
Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) also sought a
high-level independent probe into the attack on
Sarabjit. Sarabjit has been on death row in Pakistan since
1990 after being convicted by Pakistani courts
for bomb blasts in Lahore and Multan, which left
14 people dead. His family claims he is innocent,
and that he crossed over to Pakistan in August
1990 in an inebriated state, and was arrested there.
http://www.timesofindia.com/india/S...leads-for-help-prays/articleshow/19771923.cms
in a Lahore hospital saying that
chances of survival of Indian
death row prisoner Sarabjit
Singh, who was brutally
assaulted by fellow inmates, were "slim", his family on Sunday
pleaded for help from the Indian
government and prayed for his
life. Sarabjit's family arrived in Lahore city of Pakistan from Amritsar on Sunday
afternoon to be with him. After meeting him at
the Jinnah Hospital, the family pleaded that he be
allowed to be taken back to India or any other
country immediately for treatment. "When we met him in the ICU, he was just lying
there. Doctors told us that his condition was
critical. Please help us to save my brother's life,"
Sarabjit's elder sister Dalbir Kaur said in Lahore.
She is accompanied by his wife Sukhpreet Kaur,
and two daughters, Swapandeep and Poonam. Doctors at the hospital said that Sarabjit's
condition was "critical" and "chances of his
survival are slim". "His daughters called him out 'Papa'. His wife
called out to him. But he lay there like a stone. I
could not understand what to say," said Dalbir
Kaur. "I plead to our government with folded hands.
Please take him to any country for his treatment.
Don't waste time, save him. So far, when I tried
to fight for his freedom, I only got hollow
assurances," she said. "He is completely unconscious. He does not know
anything. He is on ventilator," Dalbir Kaur said,
adding that she could feel his breath and heart
beat. Sarabjit, 49, suffered critical head injuries in the
assault by four to five prisoners with bricks and
prison plates in Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore on
Friday. He has been in Pakistan prisons for over
22 years. "I want to know how the iron rods, bricks,
cutters and other things reached inside the
prison to carry out the attack on Sarabjit. It was a
big conspiracy," Dalbir Kaur said. Sarabjit's lawyer
in Pakistan, Awais Shiekh, also alleged that
Sarabjit was attacked under a conspiracy. "Singh was diagnosed on Saturday with 3/15
Glasgow coma scale (GCS); that elaborates upon
his critical state," one of the doctors treating him
told the Dawn. The doctor said the GCS was a neurological scale
aimed at assessing level of consciousness after
profound head injury and the reading of 3/15
indicated deep unconsciousness. The doctor, who was not named, told the Dawn
that Sarabjit had suffered a critical bone fracture
when he was taken to the Jinnah Hospital's
surgical emergency Friday evening. During clinical assessment, it was established that
Sarabjit had diffused brain injury over a
widespread area of his head that led to
unconsciousness. Doctors said that surgical intervention cannot be
carried out till Sarabjit's condition improves. Sarabjit is being kept in a separate intensive care
unit in unprecedented police security and no one
is being allowed to see him except doctors. First secretary in the Indian high commission in
Islamabad CS Das paid a visit to the hospital. Before crossing over to Pakistan from the Attari-
Wagah checkpost on the international border,
30km from Amritsar, Sarabjit's family offered
prayers at Harmandir Sahib, popularly known as
Golden Temple, on Sunday morning. "We are going there with lots of hopes. We want
to bring him back hale and hearty. His condition
is such that there is some fear in our hearts. We
have offered prayers to the almighty to help him
recover fast," said Dalbir Kaur. In New Delhi, the National Commission for
Scheduled Castes summoned officials of the
ministries of external affairs and home over the
issue of helping Sarabjit. It also directed the
government to send a team of specialist Indian
doctors to Pakistan for Sarabjit's treatment, commission vice-chairman Raj Kumar Verka said. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Sunday said that
the United Progressive Alliance (UPA)
government had failed to ensure safety of
Sarabjit and demanded that he be immediately
brought back to India for treatment. "There has been inaction on the part of the Indian
government in Sarabjit Singh's case. Despite
being given information by his family that he
might be attacked and was threatened in jail, the
Indian government remained silent and did not
ensure his security," BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said. A leading Pakistani daily, News International said
Sunday that the Sarabjit incident was a "sad one". In Mumbai, the Pakistan-India Peoples' Forum for
Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) also sought a
high-level independent probe into the attack on
Sarabjit. Sarabjit has been on death row in Pakistan since
1990 after being convicted by Pakistani courts
for bomb blasts in Lahore and Multan, which left
14 people dead. His family claims he is innocent,
and that he crossed over to Pakistan in August
1990 in an inebriated state, and was arrested there.
http://www.timesofindia.com/india/S...leads-for-help-prays/articleshow/19771923.cms
