PAKISTAN. COURT UPHOLDS SARABJIT SINGH'S DEATH SENTENCE

Pakistan's Supreme Court upheld a death sentence imposed on Sarabjit Singh, an alleged Indian spy, for a bombing that killed four people in 1990, court officials said. The court rejected an appeal by Singh, whose relatives in India along with the government had called on Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to review the case. It was the last of four petitions filed by Singh relating to different cases including terrorism and espionage.
The appeal related to Singh's conviction on terrorism charges by a lower court for a July 1990 bomb blast in the eastern city of Lahore in which a woman and three men were killed. Singh's relatives say he is a farmer who crossed the border into Pakistan 15 years ago while drunk, and then was confused with a man named Manjit Singh, whom Pakistan blames for a series of bombings in Lahore.