Islamabad, May 6 (ANI): Family members and relatives of the victims of the bomb blast, said to have been carried out allegedly by Sarabjit Singh, have strongly condemned the act of the Indian government through which it honoured and called the murdered death-row convict a "hero".
Sarabjit was convicted of alleged involvement in a string of bomb attacks in Punjab province that killed 14 people in 1990.
The demonstrators gathered at Bhatti Chowk where the bomb blast had taken place, killing 27 Pakistanis, to protest against the Indian government's move, reports The Nation.
The protestors called Sarabjit a terrorist who took the lives of innocent people. They accused the Indian government of supporting terrorism by honouring and calling Sarabjit a hero.
They further demanded of the government to boycott the relations with India.
Sarabjit, 49, died in the early hours of last Thursday from injuries suffered in an attack on April 26.
He sustained several injuries, including a skull fracture, when six prisoners attacked him in Kot Lakhpat Jail. He was hit on the head with bricks and his neck and torso cut with sharp weapons.
His mercy petitions were rejected by the courts and former president Pervez Musharraf.
Sarabjit's family says he is the victim of mistaken identity and had inadvertently strayed across the border in an inebriated state. (ANI)
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