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| Freed Indian set to meet family |
| An Indian man released from a Pakistani prison after spending 35 years on death row is due to be reunited with his family across the border.
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| INDIA
, 4-March-2008
1:5:43 AM |
| Kashmir Singh, sentenced to death for spying in 1973, was released on Monday.
He was discovered by Ansar Burney, a social worker who tracks people lost in Pakistan's jail system.
Hundreds of servicemen and civilians were imprisoned by India and Pakistan during hostilities between the two sides in 1965 and 1971.
Spies
Mr Burney discovered Kashmir Singh on a recent trip to a jail in Lahore and persuaded President Musharraf to revoke his death sentence and order his release.
The elderly Indian was a former policeman who had become a trader in electronic goods.
"I feel better. I am happy," Mr Singh told reporters after he was released on Monday.
He is on his way to be reunited with his wife and three children at the Wagah border between the two countries.
Local media reports say that his wife has been waiting at the border since she first heard news that her husband would be pardoned.
Mr Singh was arrested in the city of Rawalpindi in 1973 and convicted of spying.
Pakistan and India frequently arrest each other's citizens, often accusing them of straying across the border - some are treated as spies.
Mr Burney is currently the government's caretaker minister for human rights.
He first heard of Mr Singh during a radio call-in show some years ago.
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