Sarabjit's family crosses over to Pakistan

The family of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who is in coma after being brutally attacked in a Lahore jail, today crossed over to Pakistan through the border here to see him and appealed to the authorities there to allow him to come to India for treatment.
Sarabjit's wife Sukhpreet Kaur, daughters Poonam and Swapandeep and sister Dalbir, crossed over through the Attari-Wagah border at around 1305 hours.
Dalbir Kaur told reporters at the border that the family was carrying the best wishes of millions of Indians with them and hoped their prayers will be answered and Sarabjit will get well soon.

"I want to thank all the Indians who are praying for Sarabjit. That is why we have succeeded in getting the visa. I appeal to the Pakistan government to please allow him to come India for treatment. I am going with this hope that he will happily come back home," she said.
Poonam and Swapandeep said they were hopeful of their 49-year-old father's early recovery.
"Millions of Indians are praying for our father. We had been trying for a visa for quite some time to meet him, but we did not know that we will have to travel to meet him in such circumstances," Swapandeep said hoping that he would recover very soon and be back in India.

Sarabjit is admitted in a hospital at Lahore following a brutal attack on him in the Kot Lakhpat Jail on Friday.
The prisoner's family, hailing from Bhikiwind village in this district, offered obeisance at the sanctum sanctorum in the Golden Temple here this morning.