Washington: Pakistan Ambassador to the United States said on Saturday that Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh would be released within a week.
While chatting with an Indian journalist, Rehman tweeted on micro-bogging social website that bilateral relations between India and Pakistan would be back on track after Singh’s release.
However, Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik denied any such news.
Singh, imprisoned since Oct 1985 after being handed down death sentence under the Army Act, had submitted his mercy petition to the army chief but he rejected it, directing to forward it to President of Pakistan.
The president downed Singh’s death sentence to life term under a general amnesty granted to all condemned prisoners.
Since December, 1988, he is being treated as a lifer.
Singh’s sentence expired on Oct 30, 2010, and in the light of GHQ directions his mercy petition was referred to the president but there was no progress on the plea, a jail officer said.
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