Pakistan: Amir Sarfaraz, killer of Sarabjit Singh, shot dead by ‘unknown’ men in Lahore: Report

Lahore: In a major development, Amir Sarfaraz alias Tamba, the killer of Indian national Sarabjit Singh in jail, was shot dead by unknown men in Lahore, according to media reports. As of now, there are no details about who killed Tamba but the latest killing might be connected to a string of mysterious deaths in the neighbouring nation who were either wanted criminals in India or involved in terror attacks.

Notably, Sarabjit was born in Bhikhiwind, a region located along the Indo-Pakistani border in the Tarn Taran district of Punjab. According to Indian authorities, he was a farmer, who had strayed into Pakistan in the early 1990s. However, a Pakistan court convicted him and announced a death sentence for allegedly killing at least 14 people in a bomb blast in Lahore and Faisalabad in 1990. However, the death sentence was repeatedly postponed by the Pakistani government. While in prison at Kot Lakhpat Jail, Lahore in April 2013, Singh was attacked by fellow inmates–Amir Sarfraz alias Tamba and Mudassir Munir– with bricks and iron rods. He had succumbed to his injuries six days later at the Jinnah Hospital in Lahore.

A case was registered against the duo for killing Sarabjit but the Pakistani court had acquitted the accused in 2018 citing “lack of evidence and due to the resiling of prosecution witnesses.”

His sister, Dalbir Kaur, had fought a tough long battle to secure the release of his brother from the jail of the neighbouring nation but failed. She later died in 2022 in Amritsar. 

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