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Family on mission to save Indian prisoner in Pakistan

PAKISTAN: Relatives of an Indian prisoner due to be hanged in Pakistan over a deadly bombing arrived in the rival nation Wednesday on a last-ditch mission to save him from the gallows.

The wife, daughters and sister of Sarabjit Singh said they hoped to meet him in prison and would file an appeal to President Pervez Musharraf asking him to grant clemency to the condemned man. "I will be meeting my husband for the first time in 18 years.

He mistakenly crossed the border when he was drunk, he is not a terrorist," his wife Sukhpreet Kaur told reporters. "We will file an appeal to the President of Pakistan." His daughter Swapandeep, who was three weeks old when her father was arrested, said she hoped a peace process launched between the nuclear-armed nations in 2004 would help save his life.

"The friendly relations between Pakistan and India are strengthening and we are hopeful that these relations would be very useful in the case of my dad," the 18-year-old said.

Sarabjit is due to be hanged on April 30 after being convicted of involvement in blasts in 1990 that killed four people in the Pakistani city of Lahore. Pakistani television has shown footage of his alleged confession.

But he and his family insist that he is the victim of mistaken identity and his family say he inadvertently crossed the border in a state of inebriation. THURSDAY, AFP

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