This is the height of hypocrisy — all these so-called VIPs exploiting the death of Sarabjit Singh and fetching up at his funeral as if they cared that much. The same people did diddly-squat to get him released from a Pakistani prison. Sarabjit was not even a blip on their radar, and even after he was ‘thrashed’ in the jail the Indian government did sweet all to show it meant business.

Now, they are all pretending this was a case close to their hearts (last week prime minister Manmohan Singh was hardplaced to recall who Sarabjit was) and the truth is he had languished in that jail across the border for 23 years because no one cared a hoot. No one. Not even the thousands of rubberneckers who came to the last rites out of nothing but morbid curiosity.

Okay, fine, you could do nothing to twist Pakistan’s arm. But don’t now act as if you are devastated and want to share the family’s pain. That is disgusting.
Do you really think Joe public looks at all these wreath-laying political celebs and says, “wooo, what a man! How heart-warming!”

It is more gut wrenching and embarrassing. Let the man go in peace; you have no say in it.

And while on this subject how come no one thought, oops, just a sec there could be retribution in our jails against a Pakistani prisoner, let’s raise the security.

Common sense, right? So now it is tit for tat. Two men battered by cellmates for no reason at all.