Pak Journalist Brutally Tortured Before Being Killed In Kenya: Report
Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif, who turned into killed in Kenya, turned into brutally tortured for hours earlier than being shot lifeless, a media file stated on Thursday mentioning autopsy reports. Sharif, 49, a former reporter and TV anchor with ARY TV, and recognized for his proximity to former top minister Imran Khan, had fled to Kenya after he turned into booked on expenses of sedition and peddling an “anti-country” narrative through Pakistan’s protection groups in advance this year.
He turned into shot lifeless at a police checkpoint at an hour’s distance from Nairobi on October 23, developing a hurricane withinside the country. Sharif turned into killed remaining month in Kenya and the neighborhood police claimed that it turned into a case of wrong identification. The Express Tribune mentioned that Dunya TV host Kamran Shahid in his speak display on Wednesday night time claimed that Sharif turned into shot at near variety and that this turned into now no longer a case of wrong identification however a ‘deliberate homicide’.
Citing his post-autopsy reports, Kamran Shahid claimed that Sharif turned into brutally tortured for hours earlier than being shot lifeless, the paper stated. He in addition claimed that the murdered journalist’s fingernails had been pulled out and his palms and ribs had been damaged throughout torture. The senior journalist, on his display, in addition said that around ’10 American teachers and trainers’ had been gift on the capturing variety at the day of Sharif’s homicide.
According to Shahid, Sharif’s touch in Kenya determined to take an extended path returned to the metropolis at the day of the homicide in place of the oft-used Magadi Highway path. The non-public TV programme in addition claimed that the Kenyan government did now no longer cooperate with the research either, including that in addition they averted giving facts approximately the men and women gift on the variety. Earlier, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah stated proof advised Sharif turned into the sufferer of a centered killing in Kenya, now no longer an unintended capturing, aleven though he nevertheless wanted greater facts at the incident.
Kenyan police spokesman Bruno Shioso declined to reply to the minister’s feedback at the demise of the TV journalist. A police file an afternoon after the capturing stated cops searching vehicle thieves opened hearthplace at the automobile that Sharif turned into touring in because it drove via their roadblock with out stopping.
Shioso stated the case turned into now being investigated through the police watchdog, the country Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA). A spokesperson on the IPOA did now no longer at once reply to calls and a message in search of comment. The Pakistan authorities has shaped an research crew to investigate the problem at the same time as the indoors minister stated the Kenyan police had now no longer but given Pakistani investigators all of Sharif’s recovered belongings.
