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Is the PM not losing sleep over Sarabjit, asks BJP
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March 17, 2008 14:26 IST

With Pakistan reportedly deciding to hang Indian national Sarabjit Singh, the BJP on Monday asked the government to talk to Islamabad "sternly" to save the "innocent" person from the gallows.

The Opposition party had a dig at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [Images], saying he had said that he was having "sleepless nights" when Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef [Images] was arrested in Australia last year but was silent on the Sarabjit issue.

"When Haneef was arrested in Australia, the prime minister had said he was having 'sleepless nights'. But when an innocent Indian is facing death in Pakistan, the prime minister is having sound sleep," BJP vice president Mukhtar Abass Naqvi told reporters.

Naqvi, who raised the Sarabjit issue in Rajya Sabha earlier, said, "The entire nation is filled with sadness, worry and anxiety following reports that the Indian national would be hanged on April 1.


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