LAHORE, March 19: Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) leader Liaquat Baloch on Wednesday visited the family of Khalid Mahmood who was tortured to death in an Indian jail a few days ago.

JI activists and residents of the locality who gathered on the occasion raised slogans against the Indian government and demanded that the Pakistani government immediately hang Sarabjeet Singh, an Indian prisoner convicted of bomb explosions here.

Baloch said Pakistan’s Foreign Office did nothing for the release of innocent Mahmood, who remained imprisoned in India for around a year and later his body was returned to Pakistan. Mahmood’s murder, he said, was a violation of the UN charter on human rights. He said Pakistan could raise the issue and seek investigation into the murder by the UN.

The JI leader said Indian officials visited Pakistani prisons to find their prisoners, but New Delhi did not allow Pakistan to visit its citizens, including hundreds of innocent fishermen, in Indian jails.

He criticised Minister for Human Rights Ansar Burni over the release of Indian spy Kashmir Singh and denounced the government for delaying Sarabjeet Singh’s hanging for a month.