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India has asked its envoy in Pakistan to take up at the “highest possible level” the issue of early transportation of mortal remains of an Indian national who died in Pakistan on Monday.
On Kirpal Singh, our acting high commissioner in Islamabad has been instructed to seek a meeting at the highest possible level in the Pakistan foreign office today to seek early transportation of the mortal remains. He will also ask for official information on cause of death, postmortem report etc.Vikas Swarup, External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson
Kirpal Singh, 54, died at a hospital in Pakistan’s Kot Lakhpat Jail. He was allegedly involved in a bombing at Faisalabad Railway Station in 1991 and sentenced to death for spying and terrorism in Pakistan.
He was transferred to a hospital on Monday after his health suddenly deteriorated, jail officials said. Pakistani authorities said Kirpal Singh died due to heart failure.
(Inputs from IANS)
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