Lahore: A day after Amir Sarfaraz Tamba, accused of killing Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh inside a Pakistani prison in 2013, was killed by unidentified gunmen, a senior Punjab Police official on Monday claimed in a dramatic twist to the incident That he is ‘still alive’. Tamba, a close aide of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET) founder Hafiz Saeed, was attacked by motorcycle-riding assailants at his residence in Sanant Nagar here. He was taken to the hospital in critical condition where he died.
‘Tamba still alive but seriously injured’
Lahore’s SSP ‘Operations’ Syed Ali Raza told ‘Dawn’ newspaper that Tamba is still alive but seriously injured. However, when Lahore Police spokesperson Farhan Shah was contacted about the SSP’s statement on Monday, he refused to comment calling the matter ‘sensitive’. Interestingly, SSP Raza did not say where if Copper was alive then where he was shifted for ‘medical treatment’.
India’s hand in murder of copper?
Meanwhile, Pakistan Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Monday did not deny India’s involvement in Tamba’s murder. Naqvi, who is also the minister and chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), told reporters here on Monday, “India was directly involved in some murder incidents here in the past. Police are investigating the matter and at this stage it is too early to say about India’s involvement in this (copper) matter, but they suspect India’s involvement. There is a symmetry here in terms of pattern.”
Picture of Copper’s blood soaked dead body went viral
On Sunday afternoon, two gunmen shot Tamba dead at his residence in Sanant Nagar, a densely populated area of Old Lahore. The picture of Tamba’s blood soaked body also went viral on social media. Police have registered an FIR against two unknown assailants on the complaint of Tamba’s younger brother Junaid Sarfaraz. Tamba and his associate Mudassar (two Pakistani prisoners on death row) had attacked 49-year-old Sarabjit Singh in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail in 2013, leading to his death. In 2018, a Pakistani court acquitted both of them in the murder case of Singh, citing ‘lack of evidence’ against them.
Who was Sarabjit Singh?
Sarabjit Singh was born in Bhikhiwind, located on the India-Pakistan border in Tarn Taran district of Punjab. According to Indian officials, he was a farmer who had defected to Pakistan in the early 1990s. A Pakistani court then convicted him and sentenced him to death for killing at least 14 people in bomb blasts in Lahore and Faisalabad in 1990. However, the death sentence was repeatedly postponed by the Pakistani government.
After this, in April 2013, in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail, Sarabjit Singh was attacked by fellow prisoners – Amir Sarfaraz alias Tamba and Mudassir Munir with bricks and iron rods and then after 6 days, Jinnah Hospital of Lahore declared him dead. . Although the matter had become political after Sarabjit was given death sentence, relations between the two countries had deteriorated after his murder in jail in 2013. Sarabjit’s sister Dalbir Kaur had fought a hard battle for her brother’s release from the neighboring country, but was unsuccessful. Later, he also died in Amritsar in 2022. A case was registered against the duo for Sarabjit’s murder, but a Pakistani court acquitted the accused in 2018 “due to lack of evidence and prosecution witnesses turning hostile”. (Language)
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