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Sarabjit's wife appeals to Musharraf

Hands over memorandum to Pakistan National Assembly members

AMRITSAR: : Sukhpreet Kaur, wife of Sarabjit Singh, now on death row in Pakistan, along with her teenaged daughters on Tuesday met two members of the Pakistani National Assembly here and handed over to them a memorandum seeking Presidential pardon for her husband.

Chowdhury Imtiaz Alam and Munir Alam, the two lawmakers, assured her that they would hand it over to President Musharraf at the earliest.

The memorandum, addressed to the Gen. Musharraf, said that "since Sarabjit's family is tired and does not want to continue the legal battle for his release, it will be appropriate for Musharraf to grant him clemency."

"The family, under no circumstances, will like to waste time by filing a review petition to save the life of Sarabjit," it said, adding "we hope the President will be kind enough to grant clemency to Sarabjit." The family expressed happiness over the two Indian diplomats meeting Sarabjit today in a jail in Lahore.

This had come at a time when both India and Pakistan had agreed to solve the problem of prisoners in a humanitarian manner, the memorandum added. — PTI

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