Pakistan has not launched its personal investigation into the killing of the journalist. Inside Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan has mentioned, nevertheless, that the federal government will quickly ship a two-member staff of civilian investigators to Kenya to find out the circumstances surrounding the journalist’s loss of life.
Police in Kenya’s capital have issued contradictory statements deepening the thriller behind Sharif’s loss of life. Initially, they expressed remorse over the incident, saying it was a case of “mistaken identification.” They mentioned Sharif was killed throughout a search for the same automobile concerned in a baby abduction case.
Later, police mentioned somebody opened fireplace from Sharif’s automobile, wounding a police officer and officers shot again.
Sharif’s household, his associates and Pakistani authorities officers are demanding a good investigation. Sharif, 50, left Pakistan in August to keep away from arrest following a citizen’s criticism towards him alleging he maligned the nation’s nationwide establishments. Most of his associates till his loss of life solely knew that he was in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.
Sharif’s employer — the personal ARY Tv in Pakistan — had fired him in August, saying he had violated the TV station’s social media coverage. His discuss present POWERPLAY, which aired on Mondays and Thursdays, was discontinued.
The station had earlier within the 12 months remained crucial of Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif — no relation to the journalist — who ousted his predecessor Imran Khan in a no-confidence vote in parliament in April. The slain journalist was Khan’s vocal supporter, and Khan has been claiming that he was ousted as a part of a U.S.-designed plot, a cost each Washington and the Pakistani authorities deny.
As greater than 15,000 mourners gathered for Sharif’s funeral on the nation’s largest Faisal Mosque in Islamabad, Lt. Gen. Nadeem Ahmed Anjum, the nation’s spy chief, and navy spokesman Lt. Gen. Babar Iftikhar, demanded an investigation. It was the primary time within the nation’s historical past that its spy chief took half in a information convention.
Anjum advised reporters within the garrison metropolis of Rawalpindi that there was no menace to Sharif’s life when he left the nation in August. Sitting subsequent to him, Iftikhar, the navy spokesman, additionally mentioned the navy didn’t attempt to cease Sharif from leaving Pakistan from the northwestern metropolis of Peshawar.
“Arshad didn’t need to depart however he was advised that his life is at risk,” Iftikhar mentioned. Among the many questions have been why Sharif was in Kenya, the place he was touring with one other Pakistani resident, Khurram Ahmed, when their automobile didn’t cease regardless of being flagged down on the checkpoint.
Anjum, the spy chief, mentioned on the information convention his company was intentionally distancing itself from any home investigation as he needed an unbiased probe to precisely conclude why Sharif left Pakistan in September when there was no menace to his life, and why he didn’t come again after his Dubai visa expired in September.
“There must be an neutral and clear investigation” into this complete matter, Anjum mentioned.
