Amir Sarfaraz Tamba, one of the accused in the killing of Bharatiya death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh in Pakistan and a close associate of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror group founder Hafiz Sayeed, was shot dead by unknown assailants in Lahore.
Tamba was attacked by assailants on motorcycles in Lahore’s Islampura neighborhood and was taken to a hospital in critical condition, where he died from his injuries.
The police sealed off the area to search for the attackers. Sarabjit Singh, a farmer from Punjab’s Bhikhiwind town who lived near the Bharat-Pakistan border, accidentally crossed the border while intoxicated.
However, a Pakistani court sentenced him to death in 1991. Singh was imprisoned in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail for 22 years before being attacked with bricks and iron rods by his inmates and taken to the hospital. In 2013, he was pronounced dead by doctors at Lahore’s Jinnah Hospital after being in a coma for five days due to severe head injuries sustained in an attack on the jail premises.
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