By KUNA
Islamabad : Pakistan Monday was likely to release an Indian spy who had been held in Pakistani jail for 35 years on death row on spying charges.
President Pervez Musharraf accepted his mercy plea and issued his release orders on Saturday.
Minister for Human Rights, Ansar Burney talking to media said that Kashmir Singh will be released on Monday. However, police sources told KUNA that his release could be delayed owing to some technical issues. Kashmir Singh was arrested in adjacent Rawalpindi city in 1973 with another person while trying to smuggle goods from Pakistan to India.
The other man was sentenced to 10 years in jail and has been sent back to India, but a military court sentenced Singh to death. His family in 2005 had filed a mercy petition and requested the President to release him but their petition was turned down.