Pakistan seeks answers on the identity of the “unknown men” who murdered Sarabjit Singh’s killer in Lahore

Lahore: According to a police official on Sunday, Pakistani officials are looking into the shooting death of Amir Sarfaraz, also known as Tamba. In 2013, Tamba was found not guilty of the 2013 murder of Indian citizen Sarabjit Singh in a Lahore jail. For the first time, the authorities in Pakistan recognised the killing spree and launched an inquiry. In the past, Pakistan has said that the Indian intelligence service is complicit in domestic murders, citing solid proof that two Indian operatives were responsible for the deaths of two Pakistanis in the previous year. New Delhi has denied this accusation.

Amir Tamba was a guy who passed away on Sunday in Lahore, in eastern Pakistan. He was one of the people suspected of killing Indian native Sarabjit Singh, who was executed in 1991 after being found guilty of spying in Pakistan on false pretences. However, Singh passed away in 2013 after an assault by other prisoners at a Lahore jail. Tensions between the two nuclear-armed adversaries in South Asia increased as a result of his fate.

Due to a lack of evidence, Tamba and another guy were found not guilty in 2018 of Singh’s killing.

A case has been filed against “unknown men.”
Tamba was shot by gunmen who broke into his home, according to Ali Nasir Rizvi, the deputy inspector general of police in Lahore. Riding a motorcycle, they rode off. When they arrived at the scene, representatives of Pakistan’s army and intelligence services took Tamba’s corpse and transported it to the Combined Military Hospital in the city. Although Rizvi said that a lawsuit had been filed against unnamed attackers, he provided no more details on the case, including any potential reasons for the assault.

The death of Tamba was covered by Pakistani media sporadically. Indian media, however, broke the news of the shooting right away. The Indian government did not respond right away.

Singh was wrongfully detained in 1990 due to his involvement in a string of explosions in Lahore and Faisalabad that claimed 14 lives. His relatives said he was blameless. His sister, Dalbir Kaur, had tried in vain to win his brother’s release from the next country via a difficult and protracted fight. She passed away in Amritsar in 2022.

The riddle surrounding “unknown men””
It is important to note that Tamba’s most recent murder occurred during a period of reported killing sprees in Pakistan, all of which seemed to follow a similar pattern. Despite their inability to identify the murderers, Pakistan’s security services have lately begun accusing Indian officials of being responsible for the deaths, but they have not provided any hard proof to back up their allegations.

A recent media report from the UK also claimed that Pakistani individuals who New Delhi had labelled as “wanted terrorists” had been killed many times by the Indian espionage agency, RAW. The story claimed India was involved, citing a few Pakistani officials, but the London media failed to provide any evidence.

India, however, dismissed the accusations as “baseless allegations” and denied the assertions. Nevertheless, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh subsequently said in a podcast that “India would enter Pakistan if terrorists ran away to the neighbouring nation after carrying out terror strikes in the country.” External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar also made a similar claim, stating that “terrorists don’t execute operations with rules, which is why India’s response should be abide by the rules.”