Injured Pakistani prisoner dies of injuries in India hospital
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The injured Pakistani prisoner Sonaullah Thursday succumbed to his injuries in the intensive care unit of Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) Hospital in Chandigarh city, officials said.
"Sonaullah was extremely critical last night and this morning at 7:00 a.m. (local time) he died due to multiple organ failure," Manju Wadwalkar, the public relations officer of PGIMER hospital at Chandigarh told Xinhua over telephone.
The 52-year-old Sonaullah had suffered multiple head injuries last week after being attacked by another inmate inside Kot Balwal jail of Indian-controlled Kashmir. Following the attack he slipped into deep comma and was airlifted to PGIMER Chandigarh, a premier health institute in north India for treatment.
On Monday the Pakistan High Commissioner in New Delhi Salman Bashir visited PGIMER hospital to see Sonaullah's condition. Indian officials also allowed Sonaullah's brother-in-law and nephew to visit Sonaullah in hospital by granting them a 15-day visa.
Sonaullah was imprisoned in 1999 on charges of militancy in Indian-controlled Kashmir and subsequently sentenced for life in 2009.
The attack on Sonaullah was seen as an apparent retaliation to the death of a convicted Indian spy Sarabjit Singh on last Thursday. Singh was assaulted by a fellow prisoner inside a Pakistan's Lahore prison on April 26.
Sonaullah's body is likely to be flown to Pakistan, sources said.
Manzoor Memon, the spokesman of Pakistan High Commission office in New Delhi told a Indian news channel CNN IBN that India should facilitate return of Sonaullah's body to Pakistan.
Indian officials say there are 535 Indian prisoners in Pakistani jails and 272 Pakistani prisoners in Indian jails.
According to Syed Akbaruddin, the spokesman of India's Ministry of External Affairs, India was proposing a meeting of officials in both countries to "identify and put in place further measures to avoid such tragic incidents in future."
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