Pakistan’s Fear of the “Unknown” Killing People Associated with Terror in India: The Case of Sarabjit’s Killer Shot Dead

In Pakistan, there is now a concern of “unknown” persons who are pursuing terrorists who are sought in India. Sarabjit Singh, an Indian, was slain by Amir Sarfaraz Tamba during the most recent shooting in Lahore. Tamba, a close ally of Hafeez Saeed and someone with ties to the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), assassinated Singh while he was in jail. In 1990, Singh was executed in Pakistan for allegedly conducting bombings and espionage.

Nearly a dozen mysterious terrorist deaths that were connected to different terror operations in India have recently occurred in Pakistan. This comprises terrorists affiliated with groups like LeT and Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM), who were responsible for the 1999 hijacking of the IC-814 airliner, deaths in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), and the instigation of Khalistani terror in Punjab.

September of last year saw the highest number of deaths, which Pakistan said were the result of Indian intelligence operations. Nonetheless, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has said repeatedly that India doesn’t carry out operations abroad.

In a recent exclusive interview with News18, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said that India would invade Pakistan if terrorists fled the country. Normally reserved in public, Singh spoke directly to Rahul Joshi, Editor-in-Chief of Network18, when he asked about a story in The Guardian that said Indian agents were involved in the killing of twenty terrorists in Pakistan. “We will take harsh measures to avenge any terrorist who attempts to disturb India from our neighboring country or carries out terrorist attacks here,” Singh said in the interview on Friday. “We will enter Pakistan and kill him if he flees there.”

News18 was informed by sources in Indian intelligence services that the senior leadership of terror groups is afraid and is limiting their travel, even inside Pakistan. According to sources, not many individuals are aware of the leadership’s day plan, despite the fact that many were previously aware of it.

THE DEATHS
Muhammad Riaz Abu Qasim Kashmiri, a prominent figure in Jammat-ud-Dawa (JuD), the organization that founded LeT, was assassinated in September. In a same vein, in Karachi in the same month of last year, unidentified assassins assassinated Maulana Ziaur Rehman, a key assistant to JeM head Maulana Masood Azhar. He was one of the terror organization’s main recruiters.

Unknown individuals assassinated LeT mufti Qaiser Farooqui in Karachi’s Sohrab Goth neighborhood. According to reports, he was a member of Saeed’s core cell that planned the terror attacks in Mumbai on September 26, 2011.

May saw the death of a second terrorist who was on the Khalistan Commando Force’s most wanted list and was connected to many other incidents in Johar Town, Lahore. In addition to being a prominent member of the drug mafia who worked with drug suppliers, Panjwar was also a fund-raiser. According to government officials who spoke to News18, he was enlisting youth to spread fear across Punjab.

Unknown individuals also killed JeM’s Mistry Zahoor Ibrahim, aka Zahid Akhund, a very violent terrorist, in Karachi in March. During the 1999 hijacking of IC-814, he was the terrorist who murdered Rupin Katyal, an Indian, and sliced his neck in order to terrorize the other passengers. He was an extreme Jaish extremist who went under a false alias.

In the locations of Rawalpindi and Karachi, Syed Noor, Syed Khalid Raza, and Bashir Ahmad Pir, members of various groups, were slain. They were part of the terror campaign in India. Al Badr’s leader, Raza, was complicit in terror acts in J&K. He was assassinated in Karachi in February of last year after eight years as the leader of Al Badr.