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So are we seeing the first casualty of the grotesque execution of Afzal Guru in the form of Sarabjit Singh who was brutally assaulted by the inmates of the prison in Pakistan where he was on the death row for terrorist act committed in that country. It always seemed on the cards when the news reports started filtering in that a lot of people were baying for his blood in a kind of tit for tat reaction to Afzal’s execution even though Afzal was not a Pakistani citizen. But the whole point is that when the Indian government is trying to get one of its own to come back home from a Pakistani prison after that man has been given death sentence, it is downright insensitive to hang somebody who hails from Kashmir with all its attendant history and bad blood with Pakistan not to mention the unfairness of the act. When I heard of the unfortunate man’s death in coma, I thought about the incident yesterday when the Supreme Court hear in India commuted the death sentence of a terror accused to life imprisonment on the ground that the President took too long to decide on the mercy petition of the convict. I just wondered couldn’t the court have shown the same consideration to Afzal Guru? Then maybe we would have a sort of bargaining chip with the Pakistanis for an exchange of a goodwill gesture where Afzal is not hanged and Sarabjit’s sentence is also commuted to life. But sadly, that opportunity has been blown by our govt on this side engendering a reaction by a blood thirsty mob on the other side. What a crying shame!