ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif phoned Kenyan President WilliamRuto and conveyed serious concern over the death of senior journalistArshad Sharif in that country.
The premier emphasized on impartial and transparent investigation into theincident.
He also requested the Kenyan President to complete the regulatoryprocedures for repatriation of Arshad Sharif’s dead body to Pakistan.
Expressing his deep regret over the incident, the Kenyan President assuredthat demands of justice will be fulfilled in the case and an investigativereport will be released soon.
He also assured Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif that process of dead body’sreturn to Pakistan will be completed at the earliest, Radio Pakistan.
According to Kenyan media reports, the senior investigative journalists,who left the country earlier this year after resigning from a leading newschannel, was shot dead by native cops on Sunday night in a case of’mistaken identity’ along the Nairobi-Magadi highway.
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Kenyan local publication, The Star, quoting law enforcers said ArshadSharif was killed in last night’s shooting, saying the killing turned outto be a case of mistaken identity involving a Pakistani journalist.
It further added that Sharif was shot in the head as he and his driverallegedly breached a barricade.
Cops reportedly opened fire after receiving information to intercept avehicle similar to the one, Sharif and his driver was in, amid a carjackingand abduction incident in the Kenyan capital.
Police told the daily publication that Sharif’s driver was directed to stopfor identification but he allegedly peddled through the roadblock which ledto a brief chase and shooting that left the journalist dead.
