My soul laments and my heart is furious over the barbarous attack on Sarabjit Singh, leading to his death. It is fueled by the negligent stance exhibited by the Pakistani officials. Minutes after the Chief Minister of Punjab Province in Pakistan ordered judicial probe into the murder of Sarabjit Singh, an official in Islamabad preempted further actions by attributing the death to a brawl between the prisoner inmates. There is nothing new with this patent flip-flop attitude of Pakistan. Last year, in June, when Pakistani media reported Sarabjit being granted release by the President Asif Ali Zardari, they denied it few hours later accusing the media with wrong piece of information. Theorists claim that this was primarily because the president succumbed to the oppositon from ISI.
Hence, one can clearly infer why in the successive years the pleas of Indian government to release him on humanitarian grounds were disregarded. Even the requests for increasing his security due to threats from fellow inmates after the hanging of Afzal Guru and Ajmal Kasab went into deaf ears.
Considering the above facts, how can we even trust the Pakistani doctors that they would have looked for his proper care and medications? Why did they decline the plea of his family to move him to India, or any third country, with competent medical facilities?
I am now not able to buy the 'scuffle' theory propounded by the Pakistani bureaucrats. His murderers assaulted him with bricks, rods, knife-shaped spoons. Where the hell were the warders? Or, did they chose to turn a blind eye to the incident? I dread for the rest 235 Indian prisoners in Pakistan jails not to meet with Sarabjit's fate.
Sarabjit didn't die, it was a deliberately authorized murder.
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