NEW DELHI, May 4: Pakistan High Commission officials visited a hospital in north India on Saturday where a Pakistani prisoner was in critical condition in the intensive care unit after being attacked by an Indian inmate.

Convicted murderer Sanaullah Haq suffered multiple head injuries in a prison in India-held Kashmir in an apparent tit-for-tat attack after an Indian prisoner, Sarabjit Singh, was fatally assaulted in Pakistan.

On Friday, Haq was airlifted to a government hospital in the city of Chandigarh.

A spokeswoman for the government hospital said Haq was in the intensive care unit and on a ventilator as his condition “continues to remain critical”.

The Pakistani High Commission officials came to the hospital and “we have given them Haq’s medical update”, added Manju Wadwalkar, the spokeswoman for the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research Hospital.

Haq, who hails from Sialkot, was attacked by a prisoner who was identified as a former Indian army soldier nearly 24 hours after Sarabjit’s death in Lahore.

Pakistan’s foreign ministry said earlier in the week in a statement that the “obvious retaliation to the death of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh is condemnable”. —AFP