Pakistan probing killing of person accused in 2013 murder of Sarabjit Singh: Report
Amir Tamba, who had been acquitted of murdering the Indian citizen, was gunned down by intruders at his Lahore home.
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Pakistani authorities are investigating the killing of one of the persons accused in the murder of Indian national Sarabjit Singh in 2013, AP quoted an unidentified police official as saying on Sunday.
Singh was convicted of terrorism and spying in 1991 in Pakistan for a series of blasts in Lahore and Faisalabad the previous year. He maintained that he was an Indian farmer who mistakenly strayed across the border. Singh’s execution was postponed several times by the government of Pakistan. He died in May 2013 after being attacked by fellow inmates at Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail.
Earlier on Sunday, Amir Tamba – one of the accused in Singh’s murder – was gunned down by intruders at his home in Lahore, Deputy Inspector-General of Police Lahore Ali Nasir Rizvi said, according to AP. The gunmen fled the scene on a motorbike.
Tamba and Mudasir Munir, another prime accused, were acquitted of Singh’s murder in 2018 on grounds of lack of evidence. They had been booked for planned murder under the Pakistan Penal Code based on a complaint by Waqar Sumra, the former superintendent of Kot Lakhpat Jail.
Tamba’s death came days after The Guardian reported that the Indian government has allegedly assassinated at least 20 persons in Pakistan since 2020 as part of a...
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