A four-member panel of Pakistani medical experts supervising the treatment of Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh, has turned down the demand of his family for treatment abroad.

The panel headed by Mehmood Shaukat was directed by the government to decide whether Sarabjit, should be sent abroad or foreign neurosurgeons should be called to Pakistan to treat him. The panel of experts examined Sarabjit again today and studied the results of tests done on him so far, including two CT scans. There was no official word on the development.

Sarabjit sustained several injuries, including a skull fracture, when six prisoners attacked him in Kot Lakhpat Jail on Friday and doctors said his chances of survival are slim.