The spiritual head of revered Sufi saint Moinudin Chishti’s shrine in Ajmer has condemned the attack on Sarabjit Singh as an “un-Islamic act in an Islamic republic”.
“Pakistan is constitutionally an Islamic republic but the attack on a foreign prisoner is against the Islamic law,’’ said Syed Zainul Abedin Ali Khan, who was in news recently for opposing then Pakistan prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf ’s visit to Ajmer to protest killing of Indian soldiers.
He quoted the Islamic law and said it underlines that prisoners of war and foreign prisoners should not be ill-treated and must be fed and clothed. Khan said the attack on Sarabjit warrants a strong reaction from the Indian government. “Such incidents can create a negative atmosphere in India which the right-wing groups may use against the minorities.’’
He accused right wing groups in Pakistan and Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) of carrying out the attack to avenge the hanging of Afzal Guru in February 2013.
Khan asked the UN to take note of the incident.
A section of Muslim community leaders have condemned the brutal attack on Indian national Sarabjit Singh in Pakistani jail. The leaders have demanded that India should strongly lodge its protest at the international forums against the gross violation of the rights of a prisoner and efforts should be made to bring him to India for better treatment.
“After the lone terrorist of Mumbai attack, Kasab, was captured alive, India ensured that he was not harmed in jail. He was hanged after the completion of the due process of law. Why this policy has not been followed in the case of Sarabjit?”asked Syed Moin Ashraf, head of Madrasa Jamia Ashrafia.
Ashraf added that Pakistan had lost the moral to be called a civilized country. “It is shameful that even prisoners are not safe,” he said.
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