New Delhi : The Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan, Sharat Sabharwal, has met the Pakistan Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani today and requested Islamabad to immediately release Sarabjit Singh on humanitarian and sympathetic grounds. Below is the full statement by the Ministry of External Affairs on the meeting:
We are concerned at the condition of Shri Sarabjit Singh indicated by reports made available by doctors treating him in Jinnah Hospital.
Our High Commissioner has met the Pakistan Foreign Secretary and urged the Government of Pakistan to immediately release Shri Sarabjit Singh on humanitarian and sympathetic grounds so that he can benefit from the best available treatment in India.
Alternatively we have also proposed that Shri Sarabjit Singh should be sent to a third country for proper medical treatment.
This is not the time for invoking legal and bureaucratic reasons for not taking the right steps to save a human life. We believe that every endeavour should be made to save his life.
We are concerned at the condition of Shri Sarabjit Singh indicated by reports made available by doctors treating him in Jinnah Hospital.
Our High Commissioner has met the Pakistan Foreign Secretary and urged the Government of Pakistan to immediately release Shri Sarabjit Singh on humanitarian and sympathetic grounds so that he can benefit from the best available treatment in India.
This is not the time for invoking legal and bureaucratic reasons for not taking the right steps to save a human life. We believe that every endeavour should be made to save his life.
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