Ajmer: Octogenarian Pakistani prisoner Mohammad Khaleel Chishty, who was on Thursday permitted by the Supreme Court to visit Pakistan for a temporary stay, would like to meet Sarabjit Singh, the Indian prisoner on death row in Pakistan for terrorism, his family members said.
"I have heard about Sarabjit Singh's case. He is languishing in Pakistan jails for many years. I really want to meet him and would also try to speak to higher authorities for his release," Chishty told media persons in Ajmer, some 150 km from Jaipur.
Sarabjit Singh has been in Pakistan prisons for more than 20 years. He has been convicted for staging four bomb blasts in Lahore and Multan in 1990 that claimed 14 lives.
Sabarjit's family members, human rights activists and the Indian government have been urging Pakistan to grant clemency to him....
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