"We are going there with lots of hopes. We want to bring him back hale and hearty. His condition is such that there is some fear in our hearts. We have offered prayers to the almighty to help him recover fast," said Dalbir Kaur.
In New Delhi, the National Commission for Scheduled Castes summoned officials of the ministries of external affairs and home over the issue of helping Sarabjit. It also directed the government to send a team of specialist Indian doctors to Pakistan for Sarabjit's treatment, commission vice chairman Raj Kumar Verka said.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Sunday accused the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government of failing to ensure safety of Sarabjit and demanded that he be immediately brought back to India for treatment.
"There has been inaction on the part of the Indian government in Sarabjit Singh's case. Despite being given information by his family that he might be attacked and was threatened in jail, the Indian government remained silent and did not ensure his security," BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said.
A leading Pakistani daily, News International said Sunday that the Sarabjit incident was a "sad one".
In Mumbai, the Pakistan-India Peoples' Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) also sought a high-level independent probe into the attack on Sarabjit.
Sarabjit has been on death row in Pakistan since 1990 after being convicted by Pakistani courts for bomb blasts in Lahore and Multan, which left 14 people dead. His family claims he is innocent, and that he crossed over to Pakistan in August 1990 in an inebriated state, and was arrested there.
