'New Pak government to decide Sarabjit's fate'

RIGHTS ISSUE: Pakistani human rights activist Asma Jahangir says people at high levels were working to get the sentence postponed.

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New Delhi: Holding out hope for Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, noted Pakistani human rights activist Asma Jahangir on Wednesday said people at the 'high levels' are working hard to secure reprieve for him.

"People at high levels were working hard behind the scenes to get his (Sarabjit) sentence postponed," Jahangir, who is the Chairperson of the Pakistan National Human Rights Commission, said.

"The problem is that (President Pervez) Musharraf is not listening to us. But even then we are doing our best," Jahangir, who is also United Nations Rapporteur for Freedom of Religion, said on the sidelines of a conference.

The human rights activist said there will be a new democratic government in Pakistan in the next few days and it can decide the fate of Sarabjit. On Tuesday India had appealed to Pakistan for Sarabjit's clemency on humanitarian grounds.

Sarabjit's sister also handed over a clemency petition at the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi with a plea to Musharraf to show leniency towards her brother.

Sarabjit was sentenced to death for alleged involvement in the 1990 bomb blasts in Lahore and Multan that claimed 14 lives.

Jahangir, meanwhile, participating in the conference on `Freedom and Religion' at the Jamia Millia Islamia, slammed the law in some states imposing ban on religious conversion. "The conversion law has created more problems," she said.