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Pak SC upholds Sarabjit’s death sentence
K J M Varma

Islamabad, September 27
Adding to Sarabjit Singh’s woes, the Pakistan Supreme Court today upheld the death sentence given to him in another bomb blast case in Lahore in 1990. The apex court verdict came even as there was an uproar in India against the death sentence given to him in three bomb blasts in Lahore and Faisalabad following which President Pervez Musharraf has agreed to look into the mercy plea.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, during his meeting with President Musharraf in New York recently, had raised the issue and the Pakistani President had said he was a “man of compassion” and would go into legal aspects of the case before taking a decision on the mercy plea.

The apex court today upheld the death sentence given to Singh, whom Pakistan believed was Manjit Singh and accused him of being an Indian spy. — PTI