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UK Mayor to take up  Sarabjit issue with Blair
Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, September 30
The family of Sarabjit Singh, who is facing the death sentence in Pakistan, has got a new hope after a UK-based Mayor assured it that he would take up the matter with British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Addressing a press conference, Mr Darshan Singh Grewal, Mayor of Hounslow, UK, said that he would request Mr Tony Blair to take up the matter with Mr Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani President, for waiving off the death sentence to Sarabjit.

Sarabjit’s sister, Ms Dalbir Kaur, who was also present at the press conference, said she was planning to leave for New Delhi today to meet Mr A.B. Vajpayee, former Prime Minister, with a request to take up the matter. She said she was also trying to seek an appointment from Mr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, President of India, so that she could meet him during her Delhi visit.