Taking another man's life for absolutely no reason is inhuman and uncivilized. Sarabjit Singh deserves a fair trial - he deserves proper legal representation - one that will use their intimate knowledge of the Pakistani judicial system to prove his innocence and if innocent to secure his freedom.

International and local news organizations have reported that Sarabjit's petition before Pakistan's Supreme Court was not upheld because his counsel failed to turn up for the hearing!!

At the very least, the Pakistani establishment owes it to its own people and mankind that Pakistan is not a failed state and there is still the rule of law in that land.

Sarabjit Singh deserves a fair trial - this is the least that a civilized society can do before sending an accused to the gallows.