Sarabjit’s lawyer abducted in Lahore

Lahore: Slain Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh’s Pakistani lawyer Awais Sheikh was abducted here on Wednesday, his son Muhammad Haroon told the media today.

Muhammad Haroon said his father left home yesterday but has not returned since.

Since the time Awais Sheikh took up Sarabjit’s case in June 2009, the lawyer has received many threats. “People labelled me an Indian agent, while others said I was against the state.”

Earlier this month, he escaped a kidnapping incident at Wagha Border where he was seeing off Sarabjit’s family members.

After Sarabjit’s death, Sheikh had vowed to support Indian inmates languishing in local jails.