A two-member team, digging into the killing of senior journalist ArshadSharif in Kenya, has reached Dubai.
Sources say the committee, comprising high-ups of the Intelligence Bureauand the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), will ascertain thecircumstances under which the senior journalist reached Dubai, stayed thereand departed to Kenya.
The team would find out the persons who threatened to kill Arshad and themotive behind the crime. The investigation team will visit Arshad Sharif’sresidence and the persons he met there.
Earlier, the investigators visited Nairobi where they recorded statementsof two witnesses and gathered details to bring out the facts about theassassination of Arshad.
Reportedly, the committee members met Khurram Ahmed, who was driving thevehicle carrying the slain journalist and his brother Waqar Ahmed in theKenyan capital.
Arshad Sharif was staying at a place, owned by the two brothers. But therewas no confirmation from either the IB or the FIA that the committee hadquestioned them.
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Waqar reportedly told the investigation team that his brother Khurram Ahmed“miraculously survived” the shooting and “we handed over Arshad’s iPad andmobile phone to Kenyan authorities”.
According to the Kenyan police, Arshad Sharif was killed in Nairobi lastmonth on Oct 23 when police, “hunting car thieves”, opened fire on the carhe was travelling in when it ignored warnings to stop and drove on througha roadblock.
A police statement said the shooting was being treated as a case ofmistaken identity. The killing sparked outrage in Pakistan and calls foran investigation. The government heeded the calls, setting up thetwo-member inquiry team.
