While talking to TOI over phone from Sweden on Monday, Sheikh said, "Sweden has granted me permanent stay along with my family and has also provided me all facilities and security after taking note of my abduction and physical torture." He claimed that his life in Pakistan was under constant threat from people and organizations that were inimical to India-Pak friendship. Sheikh had claimed that some people had tried to abduct him and his son while they were going to buy land for a farmhouse near Lahore. He also told TOI that the alleged abductors dumped both of them on the highway, a little after their abduction.
Sheikh also mentioned that a letter written by the chairperson of human rights commission Pakistan Zohra Yusuf on May 3 to the then caretaker chief minister of Pakistan's Punjab Province Nazam Sethi for providing security cover to him and his family was blatantly ignored.
"During my stay in Pakistan after the abduction attempt, there were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested but I did not give myself up to despair," he said.
Sheikh didn't inform as to what he was doing in Sweden except that he was just settling in the new place. However, he said that his family felt secure in Sweden. President of the Pakistan India peace initiative, Sheikh also quoted an incident of meeting a 1971 India-Pak conflict prisoner of war (PoW) Sepoy Mangal Singh of 14 Punjab Regiment "I met him in Central Jail, Lahore. He had also recognized his photograph in uniform. With mixed feelings, the prisoner had said 'Haan haan ye meri photo hai'."
Notably, Pakistan government had been constantly denying the presence of any PoW in Pakistan's jails but Sheikh's claims could put the government in dock on its claims.
Awais Sheikh said that his intention in referring the case of Mangal Singh was not to defame Pakistan but to remind and convince both countries to realize their moral and international obligations and free all POWs with immediate effect. Impressed with Sweden's natural wealth Sheikh said, "Everything here is wonderful and amazing, I can inhale pure air,drink pure water and there is lot of natural beauty."
Anda sedang membaca artikel tentang
Sarabjit Singh's lawyer Awais Sheikh takes refuge in Sweden
Dengan url
http://thetimesnewsid.blogspot.com/2013/09/sarabjit-singhs-lawyer-awais-sheikh.html
Anda boleh menyebar luaskannya atau mengcopy paste-nya
Sarabjit Singh's lawyer Awais Sheikh takes refuge in Sweden
namun jangan lupa untuk meletakkan link
Sarabjit Singh's lawyer Awais Sheikh takes refuge in Sweden
sebagai sumbernya
0 komentar:
Posting Komentar