Sanaullah Haq attack: Tit for tat?

Published May 5, 2013
Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Haq is carried on a stretcher to a hospital for treatment in Jammu, India, Friday, May 3.
Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Haq is carried on a stretcher to a hospital for treatment in Jammu, India, Friday, May 3.
Sanaullah Haq, who was serving a life term, plays a bagpipe during a routine practice inside Kotbhalwal central jail in Jammu in this May 20, 2011 file picture.
Sanaullah Haq, who was serving a life term, plays a bagpipe during a routine practice inside Kotbhalwal central jail in Jammu in this May 20, 2011 file picture.
Sanaullah Haq is seen in his regular jail uniform after attending a routine practice inside Kotbhalwal central jail in Jammu in this May 20, 2011 file picture.
Sanaullah Haq is seen in his regular jail uniform after attending a routine practice inside Kotbhalwal central jail in Jammu in this May 20, 2011 file picture.
Kashmiri's shout slogans and wave placards as they march against the attack on Sanaullah Haq.
Kashmiri's shout slogans and wave placards as they march against the attack on Sanaullah Haq.
Indian policemen escort Pakistani officials  as they leave The PGI Hospital in Chandigarh on May 4, 2013, after meeting Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Haq.
Indian policemen escort Pakistani officials as they leave The PGI Hospital in Chandigarh on May 4, 2013, after meeting Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Haq.

Sanaullah Haq, the Pakistani prisoner who was attacked in an India prison in Jammu last week, is brain dead doctors of the PGI Chandigarh said on Sunday, May 5, DawnNews reported. Haq, who was convicted of involvement in separatist activities in the disputed area of Kashmir, was attacked in an Indian prison by a court-martialled Indian soldier in retaliation to a similar incident in a Pakistani prison where some prisoners attacked Sarabjit Singh, who was a deathrow prisoner in Pakistan convicted for terrorism charges related to bombing in Faisalabad that had killed 14 people. Sarabjit later died at a hospital in Lahore. - Text by Dawn.com, photos/captions by Agencies

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