Suspicions of slain Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif’s killing havingbeen financed are not unfounded given how Kenya police are infamous forexecuting extra-judicial killings, journalist Asad Ali Toor said on Monday.
Toor made the comments in flagship *Naya Daur TV* show *Khabar Say Aagay*.Toor said the Kenyan media was not buying the version put forward bypolice. Antics such as these were not unknown in Pakistan either, he said.The journalist said Sharif had fled the country to save his life due tosuch happenings.
Former Radio Pakistan DG Murtaza Solangi said all international rightsorganisations of note must intervene since the killing happened in Kenyaand not on Pakistani soil. He said Kenyan functionaries will have topresent an answer on who killed Sharif.
*Naya Daur* Founding Editor Raza Rumi said incidents such as these were notunprecedented in Pakistan. He said reporter Saleem Shahzad had been killedin 2011. Anchor Hamid Mir was shot at. Former Pemra chairman Absar Alam wasattacked too. Not much headway had been registered in connection withcracking the cases, Rumi said.
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Analyst Muzamal Suharwardy said Sharif had been warring with the veryforces that had patronised him. Till date, Suharwardy said, Sharif was notstriving for democracy. He said he could not quite fathom why Sharif fledPakistan when Hamid Mir been living in Pakistan despite surviving a gunattack.