Summary FO says a panel of Pakistani experts has been formed for medical treatment of the Indian spy.
ISLAMABAD (Online): Pakistan on Monday ruled out the possibility that Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh could be sent abroad for his treatment.
In a statement on Monday, the Foreign Office said that Singh, who is under treatment in Lahore’s Jinnah Hospital after being beaten up by fellow inmates in Kot Lakhpat Jail, is not being sent abroad for the treatment neither Indian doctors be given access to him.
It said that a panel of Pakistani experts has been formed for medical treatment of the Indian terrorist convicted for bomb blast in Pakistan killing many Pakistanis 23 years ago.
Earlier a media reported said that four-member panel of Pakistani medical experts supervising the treatment of Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh, comatose in a Lahore hospital has been asked to decide whether he should be sent abroad for treatment.
The panel headed by Mehmood Shaukat was directed by the government to decide whether Sarabjit, 49, should be sent abroad or foreign neurosurgeons should be called to Pakistan to treat him.
The administration of Jinnah Hospital, where Sarabjit has been in an intensive care unit since Friday, has received a formal order from the government in this regard, the report said.
The panel of experts examined Sarabjit again on Monday 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.
He was hit on the head with bricks and his neck and torso cut with sharp weapons. He is in a deep coma and doctors said yesterday that there had been no improvement in his condition.
Sarabjit was convicted for alleged involvement in a string of bomb attacks in Punjab province that killed 14 people in 1990.
His mercy petitions were rejected by the courts and former President Pervez Musharraf.
Sarabjit s family said he is the victim of mistaken identity and had inadvertently strayed across the border in an inebriated state.
