If Indian national Sarabjit Singh is hanged by the Pakistani government, the act will amount to a “murder of humanity” because Singh was convicted without “any substantial evidence”, according to former Pakistani human rights minister Ansar Burney on Friday.

“I can’t allow the government to hang Sarabjit Singh on the basis that he is a non-Muslim and a non-Pakistani, and because of pressure from extremist fundamentalist groups,” Burney said. He said there are many loopholes in Sabarjit’s conviction.

Burney, who is also a member of the Advisory Committee to the UN Human Rights Council, is currently threatened by terrorists in Pakistan. Recently, he also played a key role in sending home an Indian national Kashmir Singh, who admitted in a press conference after reaching home that he was indeed a spy. 

Meanwhile, the Pakistani government has put off Sarabjit’s hanging by three weeks, which was earlier set for May 1. Sarabjit, 42, was sentenced to death for his alleged involvement in four bomb blasts in the Punjab province in 1990.

His family met him in a Lahore jail recently, and they denied that he is an Indian spy.