A significant news development has surfaced from Pakistan. In Lahore, the infamous underworld don Amir Sarfaraz was fatally shot by unknown assailants. The same Amir Sarfaraz who, on the orders of the ISI, had murdered Indian citizen Sarabjit Singh who was imprisoned in Pakistan. At Pakistan's Kot Lakhpat Jail, Amir Sarfaraz choked Sarabjit to death with polythene and beat him mercilessly. Sarfaraz had tortured and killed Sarabjit on the behest of the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI. Sarabjit Singh, a resident of Bhikhiwind village in the Tarn Taran district near the India-Pakistan border, was captured by the Pakistani army on charges of espionage.
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Accidental border crossing by Sarabjit back in 1990
It should be noted that Sarabjit Singh, a farmer from Bhikhiwind, had accidentally crossed into Pakistani territory on August 30, 1990. He was arrested by the Pakistan army and framed for bomb blasts in Lahore and Faisalabad, which led to his imprisonment and subsequent death sentence for the attacks that killed 14 people in 1991. Prisoners in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail dealt a severe attack on Sarabjit Singh, after which Pakistan declared him brain dead.
Sarabjit's haunting tale narrated through letters
While incarcerated in Kot Lakhpat Jail, Sarabjit wrote to India, detailing his ordeal: 'I have been fed some substances in my food for the last two months. It's making my body deteriorate. I'm experiencing severe pain in my left hand and my right leg is growing weaker. The food is like poison—impossible to eat or digest.'
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'Being poisoned,' Sarabjit expressed his fears
Sarabjit, suspecting slow poisoning in jail, mentioned, 'Whenever my pain becomes unbearable and I seek medication from the jail officials, they mock me. They try their utmost to make me seem insane. I've been placed in solitary confinement, making each day's wait for release intolerable.' Every word in Sarabjit's letters tore at the hearts of the people in Bhikhiwind.
'Arrested due to mistaken identity'
Asserting his innocence, Sarabjit wrote, 'I am a very poor farmer, my arrest was due to mistaken identity. On the night of August 28, 1990, I was heavily drunk and wandered across the border. When captured at the border, I was brutally beaten. I couldn't even see who was hitting me. I was chained up and blindfolded.' Despite the brutality faced by Sarabjit in Pakistani prisons, all his complaints were ignored in the courts.
