India behind Sarabjit's murderer killing? Pakistan blatantly blames India without proof

Islamabad, April 16: In yet another attack on India, Pakistan Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi has claimed that India may have been involved in the "targeted killing" of Amir Sarfaraz who is a close aide of Lashkar-E-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed. Sarfaraz was acquitted in 2013 of the murder of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh but was recently killed in an attack by two motorcycle-borne assailants at his home in Lahore's Islampura neighbourhood.

When questioned about potential Indian involvement in Tamba's killing, Naqvi informed reporters that India has been implicated in several killings within Pakistan previously, and police are currently investigating the possibility of #Indian involvement in Tamba's murder.

While Naqvi emphasized the need to await the completion of the investigation before concluding, he noted that the incident shares a similar pattern to previous cases involving Indian intel agents.

The shooting prompted Sarfaraz's brother, Junaid Sarfraz, to file a complaint with the police, resulting in a case being registered against the unidentified attackers. Subsequently, the Punjab government referred the case to the police's counter-terrorism department for further investigation, a department often linked to Pakistan's intelligence agency, the ISI.

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The background to this incident includes Sarfaraz's alleged involvement, along with his associate Mudasir Munir, in the murder of Sarabjit Singh at Kot Lakhpat prison in April 2013. Sarabjit Singh had been convicted of espionage and orchestrating bombings in Lahore and Faisalabad in 1990. However, in a surprising turn of events in December 2018, a sessions court in Lahore acquitted both Tamba and Munir of Singh's murder after all witnesses retracted their statements.

Pakistan has previously accused India's intelligence agency of being behind killings of terrorists within Pakistan, citing credible evidence linking Indian agents to such incidents. Moreover, a recent report by Britain's Guardian newspaper alleged that the Indian government had orchestrated around 20 killings in Pakistan since 2020 as part of a broader strategy to eliminate militants on foreign soil.