Cancer patient to get permission to visit family members
ISLAMABAD, (MILLAT ONLINE):A 54 years old cancer patient Zulfiqar Ali, imprisoned in Indonesia is lying on death bed and needs to be allowed to see his family purely on humanitarian grounds.
“The accused is a father of five children and suffering from a stage four terminal liver cancer which has spread in both lobes of liver should be allowed to visit his home to see his family before his death”.
Appealing to the visiting President of Indonesia, Senator Sehar Kamran told APP that Zulfiqar’s physician have given him about three to survive.
She informed that he was arrested in 2004, on drug charges but police have been unable to bring forward any material evidence against him.
“Zulfiqar no longer went to hospital because he could not afford cost of treatment. Instead he languished in the jail hospital which is not equipped to deal with the chronic disease like cancer”, she stated.
It merits mention here that the Indonesian President is scheduled to visit Pakistan on January 26, and the senator is optimistic that her appeal for the accused would be duly considered on humanitarian and sympathetic grounds.