Pak prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay given state funeral

Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay was given a state funeral at his native village Oora in Pakistan on Thursday. According to a report in Dawn, thousands including government officials attended the funeral that took place late on Thursday night. [caption id=“attachment_769589” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Pakistan prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay. PTI[/caption] Sanaullah’s body was flown from Chandigarh by a special  aircraft and landed at Sialkot airport at around 6. 30 pm. The newspaper quotes District Coordination Officer Mohammad Shakeel saying Sanaullah’s body was taken to Allama Iqbal Memorial hospital where a board of senior doctors carried out a post mortem. Sanaullah, who had been hospitalised at Chandigarh’s PGIMER hospital after being attacked in Jammu’s Kot Bhalwal jail on 3 May, died on Thursday morning following multiple organ failure, doctors said. Sanaullah was arrested in 1996 and charged with involvement in a bomb blast at Katra near the Hindu shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi in 1994 that killed 10 people. He was serving a life term in the Jammu jail. Pakistan officials have asked for an international probe into the ’extra-judicial murder’ of Sanaullah, but India has side-stepped the demand. “I cannot comment on this now as no demand has come to us till now. When the demand comes, I will tell you,“Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde told reporters. With IANS inputs