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Islamabad: An Indian man who has spent more than 30 years on death row in Pakistani prisons for alleged spying was released yesterday, Pakistan's government said.
Kashmir Singh, who is about 60 years old, was released from a prison in Lahore on the order of President Pervez Musharraf, said Ansar Burney, Pakistan's minister for human rights. Singh will be reunited with his family.
Pakistan and India, who have fought three wars in the 60 years since independence from Britain, frequently arrest each other's citizens, including many fishermen and others who say they strayed across the border inadvertently.
Many are accused of spying and held for years, usually with no contact with their families while they are in custody, though Singh's case appears extreme.
Singh, a trader in electronic goods, was arrested during a business trip to the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi in 1973, convicted and sentenced to death by a military court in Lahore.
The government suspended his exection during the late 1970s and Singh's case had languished ever since.
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