<p>The federal government's position was conveyed to Lahore High Court Chief Justice Ijaz Chaudhry in a reply filed by Deputy Attorney General Nasim Kashmiri.<br /><br />The Chief Justice was hearing a petition asking the court to restrain President Asif Ali Zardari from pardoning Sarabjit. The Chief Justice subsequently dismissed the petition filed by a lawyer named Ilamuddin Ghazi.<br /><br />Ghazi said Sarabjit had been given the death sentence by a trial court and the verdict had been upheld by the Lahore High Court and the Supreme Court.<br /><br />He pointed out that even the former President Pervez Musharraf had dismissed his mercy petition.<br /><br />The Chief Justice also dismissed a separate petition filed by Sarabjit's lawyer seeking a medical check-up and treatment for him.<br /><br />A report submitted on behalf of the Punjab Home Secretary rejected arguments by Awais Sheikh, the counsel for Sarabjit, that he was in need of medical treatment.<br /><br />The report maintained that Sarabjit was in good health and there was no need to get him medically examined at a hospital outside Kot Lakhpat Jail, where he is being held.<br />The report said Sheikh's request to allow him to teach Sarabjit yoga in the jail was not "practicable".<br /><br />Sheikh was being allowed to meet Sarabjit according to jail rules and regulations, the report added. <br /><br />Sarabjit has been on death row since he was convicted for alleged involvement in four bomb blasts that killed 14 people in 1990.<br /><br />His family insists he was wrongly convicted for the bombings.<br /><br />Though Sarabjit was set to be hanged in 2008, Pakistani authorities put off his execution indefinitely after Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani intervened in the matter.</p>
<p>The federal government's position was conveyed to Lahore High Court Chief Justice Ijaz Chaudhry in a reply filed by Deputy Attorney General Nasim Kashmiri.<br /><br />The Chief Justice was hearing a petition asking the court to restrain President Asif Ali Zardari from pardoning Sarabjit. The Chief Justice subsequently dismissed the petition filed by a lawyer named Ilamuddin Ghazi.<br /><br />Ghazi said Sarabjit had been given the death sentence by a trial court and the verdict had been upheld by the Lahore High Court and the Supreme Court.<br /><br />He pointed out that even the former President Pervez Musharraf had dismissed his mercy petition.<br /><br />The Chief Justice also dismissed a separate petition filed by Sarabjit's lawyer seeking a medical check-up and treatment for him.<br /><br />A report submitted on behalf of the Punjab Home Secretary rejected arguments by Awais Sheikh, the counsel for Sarabjit, that he was in need of medical treatment.<br /><br />The report maintained that Sarabjit was in good health and there was no need to get him medically examined at a hospital outside Kot Lakhpat Jail, where he is being held.<br />The report said Sheikh's request to allow him to teach Sarabjit yoga in the jail was not "practicable".<br /><br />Sheikh was being allowed to meet Sarabjit according to jail rules and regulations, the report added. <br /><br />Sarabjit has been on death row since he was convicted for alleged involvement in four bomb blasts that killed 14 people in 1990.<br /><br />His family insists he was wrongly convicted for the bombings.<br /><br />Though Sarabjit was set to be hanged in 2008, Pakistani authorities put off his execution indefinitely after Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani intervened in the matter.</p>