While innocent Pakistanis are being tortured and murdered in Indians jails Burney & his likes are trying to save convicted Indian terrorists. 
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/18/asia/AS-GEN-Pakistan-Indian-Convict.php
India appeals to Pakistan to stay execution of convicted Indian spy
The Associated Press
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: A Pakistan government minister urged President Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday to halt the execution of a convicted Indian spy and terrorist and to let him live out his days in jail.
India also appealed for a reprieve for Sarabjit Singh, who was jailed in Pakistan in 1990 for alleged espionage and involvement in bomb blasts. He is scheduled to be hanged on April 1.
Musharraf, who rejected an earlier appeal to spare Singh, could not be reached for comment.
Caretaker Human Rights Minister Ansar Burney said he expected to receive an appeal for clemency from Singh’s family this week. He said he would urge Musharraf to convert Singh’s sentence to life imprisonment.
Having held him for 18 years on death row, executing him would amount to a double punishment and “a murder of human rights,” Burney told The Associated Press.
Last month, Burney successfully petitioned Musharraf to pardon an Indian man on humanitarian grounds after he had spent 35 years in jail for alleged espionage.
The return home to India of Kashmir Singh was hailed as a sign of improving relations between the two South Asian neighbors, who have fought three wars since their independence from Britain in 1947.
However, the mood soured when Kashmir Singh acknowledged that his protestations of innocence had been a ruse and that he had indeed been spying for India.
It darkened further on March 10, when India returned the body of an alleged Pakistani spy who died in custody. Relatives of the dead man claimed he had been mistreated and Pakistan demanded an explanation.
On Tuesday, India’s External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said India and Pakistan were working on improving the situations of their citizens in each other’s jails.
“It is in this context and in the same spirit that we appeal to the government of Pakistan to treat Sarabjit Singh’s case with clemency on humanitarian grounds,” Mukherjee told the parliament in New Delhi.
Muhammed Sadiq, a spokesman for the Pakistani Foreign Ministry, said Tuesday that it was passing India’s request for clemency to the “concerned authorities.” Sadiq did not elaborate.
The Indian High Commission in Islamabad expressed concern at suggestions in Pakistani media that authorities were going ahead with the execution because of the death of the Pakistan prisoner in India.
That impression could “impinge on the positive atmosphere” between the two countries, it said.
It said it was hoped that the appeals would be considered “from all angles,” including by the new government expected to take office in Islamabad later this month.
Associated Press Writer Ashok Sharma in New Delhi contributed to this report.
