Sarfraz Tamba Survives Attack: Amir Sarfaraz Tamba, the murderer of Sarabjit Singh, is alive. This confirmation was not made by any common man but by Senior Superintendent of Police Operation Syed Ali Raza of Lahore in Pakistan to Dawn. Ali Raja said that Sarfaraz was alive, though seriously injured. Initially local media reports claimed that Sarfaraz was shot dead by unknown assailants.
Claim- Treatment going on in local hospital
Tamba, a close aide of Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed, was at his residence in Islampura area of Lahore on Sunday. Then two masked armed men forcefully entered his house on Ganga Street and opened fire on him. When Copper fell down drenched in blood, the attackers abandoned him and fled from the spot. He was taken to a local hospital, where he is being treated.
Minister said – the attack was like previous incidents
In this entire incident, Pakistan’s Home Minister Mohsin Naqvi indicated on Monday that India had a hand in the attack on Amir Sarfaraz Tamba. During a press conference at the Federal Investigation Agency’s regional office in Lahore, the minister said India has been directly involved in two-four such incidents of killings inside Pakistan. Police are still investigating.
He said that at this moment all the evidence is pointing towards them (India). It is unfair to say more before the investigation is complete, but the pattern is almost the same.
The attack on Tamba came days after a report by the British publication The Guardian. The British newspaper had recently claimed that the Indian government killed individuals in Pakistan as part of a broader strategy to eliminate terrorists living on foreign soil. However, India rejected the report.
Punjab DGP distanced itself from the minister’s statement
Contrary to the Home Minister’s comments, Punjab Inspector General Dr Usman Anwar said that any statement about foreign involvement in the Lahore attack would be premature or too early. A high-profile investigation has been launched to find out the motive behind the attack. Islampura police registered a case of murder against unknown armed men. The Punjab government has referred the matter to the anti-terrorism department of the police for investigation.
Sarfaraz was involved in Sarabjit’s murder
In fact, Tamba was one of the two prisoners who attacked Indian national Sarabjit Singh in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail in 2013. After this Sarabjit died. Sarfaraz and his associate Mudasir Munir were acquitted by the district and sessions court in 2018 after all the witnesses turned hostile.
Sarabjit Singh was murdered in February 2013, a few months after terrorist Afzal Guru was hanged in Mumbai’s Tihar Jail. Sarabjit Singh was serving the death sentence awarded by the Supreme Court for the serial bomb attacks in Lahore and Faisalabad that killed 14 people in 1990.
