Pakistan investigates murder of suspect in 2013 fatal attack on Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh

Amir Tamba, who died in Lahore on Saturday, was a suspect in prison death of Indian national Sarabjit Singh, who was convicted of spying in Pakistan

Police in Lahore said gunmen entered Tamba’s house and shot him then fled the scene on a motorbike. They did not give a possible motive for the attack

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Indian Sikhs in Kolkata, India, protest against Pakistan in 2013 as they hold photographs of Sarabjit Singh, centre, a convicted Indian spy who was on Pakistan’s death row. Photo: AP

Published: 6:18am, 15 Apr 2024Updated: 12:48pm, 15 Apr 2024

Pakistani authorities are investigating the shooting death of a man who had been acquitted of killing accused Indian spy Sarabjit Singh in a Lahore prison in 2013, a police official said on Sunday.

Pakistan has previously accused India’s intelligence agency of being involved in killings inside Pakistan, saying it had credible evidence linking two Indian agents to the deaths of two Pakistanis last year.

The man who died in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Sunday was Amir Tamba. He was a suspect in the death of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian national who was convicted of spying in Pakistan and handed a death sentence in 1991.

But Singh died in 2013 after inmates attacked him in a Lahore prison. His fate inflamed tensions between the two South Asian nuclear-armed rivals.

Tamba and a second man went on trial for Singh’s death but were acquitted in 2018 due to lack of evidence.

The deputy inspector general of police in Lahore, Ali Nasir Rizvi, said gunmen entered Tamba’s house and shot him. They fled the scene on a motorbike. Officials from Pakistan’s army and intelligence agency reached the site and removed Tamba’s body, taking it to the city’s Combined Military Hospital.