Pak counsel for Sarabjit passes away in Sweden

AMRITSAR:Noted Pakistani lawyer Awais Sheikh (67), who was the counsel for Indian national Sarabjit Singh who was killed in a Pakistani jail in 2013, passed away in Sweden on Monday.

Sarabjit, a native of Bhikhiwind village in Tarn Taran district, was awarded the death sentence for spying charges and killing at least 14 Pakistani citizens in bomb blasts in Punjab province in 1990.

Two Pakistani death row prisoners — Amir Sarfraz, alias Tamba, and Mudassar — in May 2013 had attacked Sarabjit, 49, in the Kot Lakhpat jail in Lahore and killed him.

Awais’s son Shahrukh disclosed the news of his death on Facebook Monday night.

Shahrukh did not disclose the cause of the death, but according to Sarabjit’s sister Dalbir Kaur, who spoke to Awais’s wife over phone on Monday evening, he suffered a heart attack and was declared brought dead by the doctors. SURJIT SINGH