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Pak to consider positively issue of Sarabjit's release

New Delhi, May 28 (PTI) Pakistan has given an assurance to India to consider positively the request for release of Sarabjit Singh, a condemned Indian prisoner currently lodged in a Lahore jail. The assurance was given when India's Home Secretary R K Singh called on Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik in Islamabad last week. "I have requested the Pakistan Interior Minister and my counterpart (Interior Secretary Khwaja Siddique Akbar) to release Sarabjit Singh. They have assured me that they would consider our request positively," Singh told reporters here today. Singh was briefing about his visit to Islamabad for the Indo-Pak Home Secretary-level talks on May 24 and 25. During the talks, the Indian delegation had cited the release of Pakistani virologist Khalil Chishti and requested Islamabad to release Sarabjit as well. Sarabjit was convicted for involvement in the 1990 serial bomb blasts in Lahore and Multan that killed 14 people. He claims that he is just a poor farmer and victim of mistaken identity, who strayed into Pakistan from his village located on the border. He was given death sentence, but the hanging has been indefinitely postponed. He is imprisoned in the Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore. PTI

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