Veteran Indian actor Raza Murad has sought Pakistani actor Veena Malik’s support in securing the release of Sarabjeet Singh, an Indian RAW agent sentenced to death for conducting a series of bomb blasts in Pakistan.
Singh has been languishing in a Pakistani jail for more than 20 years after having been convicted of staging four bomb blasts in Lahore and Multan in 1990 that claimed 14 lives.
The Times of India reported that Raza Murad had met with Singh’s family while visiting Amritsar over the weekend. Describing the experience as heart-rendering, Murad said that “The suffering that Sarabjit’s wife Sukhprit Kaur and his two daughters have undergone shook me to the core.”
This, Murad said, prompted him to launch a campaign, ‘Sarabjeet Bachao Adolan’ to rescue Singh. While Veena Malik is being approached, the veteran actor will also be writing letters to high officials in the Indian and Pakistani governments along with using his regular column space to campaign for his release.
“The plan involves the participation of the entire Punjab entertainment industry. I’m also framing letters to the Indian prime minister and the president. Letters to the Pakistan’s prime minister and president are being sent through the Pakistani embassy, as too our memorandum of protest through the Ministry of External Affairs.”
He also aims to convince Salman Khan, Shatrughan Sinha, Raj Babbar and people from the Pakistani film industry to help him in this campaign.
Veena to help secure Indian spy’s release?
