May 21, 2012 1:56 PM

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India to take up Sarabjit Singh release with Pak

India will take up with Pakistan the issue of early release of Sarabjit Singh, the condemned Indian prisoner currently lodged in a Lahore jail during the Home Secretary-level talks on May 24-25.This was conveyed by Home Minister P Chidambaram to Sarabjit's sister Dalbir Kaur, who met Chidambaram in New Delhi today. Mrs. Kaur requested the Home Minister to ask Home Secretary RK Singh to raise the issue of Sarabjit during the forthcoming talks in Islamabad.Speaking to reporters later, Mrs. Kaur said the Home Minister assured her that the Home Secretary would raise the issue of early release of Sarabjit during the talks with Pakistan.Sarabjit was convicted for his involvement in 1990 serial bomb blasts in Lahore and Multan that killed 14 people. He was given death sentence but his hanging was repeatedly postponed and he is imprisoned in the Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore. Mrs. Kaur said she would meet Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna and Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal to request them to do the needful for early release of Sarabjit.

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