Islamabad: Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif, who became killed in Kenya, became brutally tortured for hours earlier than being shot useless, a media file stated on Thursday mentioning autopsy reports.
Sharif, 49, a former reporter and TV anchor with ARY TV, and acknowledged for his proximity to former top minister Imran Khan, had fled to Kenya after he became booked on expenses of sedition and peddling an “anti-country” narrative via way of means of Pakistan’s safety corporations in advance this year.
He became shot useless at a police checkpoint at an hour’s distance from Nairobi on October 23, developing a typhoon withinside the country.
Sharif became killed closing month in Kenya and the neighborhood police claimed that it became a case of incorrect identification. The Express Tribune mentioned that Dunya TV host Kamran Shahid in his communicate display on Wednesday night time claimed that Sharif became shot at near variety and that this became now no longer a case of incorrect identification however a ‘deliberate homicide’.
Citing his post-autopsy reports, Kamran Shahid claimed that Sharif became brutally tortured for hours earlier than being shot useless, the paper stated.
He similarly claimed that the murdered journalist’s fingernails had been pulled out and his palms and ribs had been damaged at some point of torture.
The senior journalist, on his display, similarly said that around ’10 American teachers and trainers’ had been gift on the taking pictures 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 town at the day of the homicide as opposed to the oft-used Magadi Highway path.
The personal TV programme similarly claimed that the Kenyan government did now no longer cooperate with the research either, including that in addition they averted giving statistics approximately the individuals gift on the variety.
Earlier, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah stated proof advised Sharif became the sufferer of a centered killing in Kenya, now no longer an unintended taking pictures, aleven though he nonetheless wanted greater statistics at the incident.
Kenyan police spokesman Bruno Shioso declined to reply to the minister’s feedback at the loss of life of the TV journalist.
A police file an afternoon after the taking pictures stated cops looking vehicle thieves opened hearthplace at the automobile that Sharif became journeying in because it drove thru their roadblock with out stopping.
Shioso stated the case became now being investigated via way of means of 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 looking for comment.
The Pakistan authorities has shaped an research crew to look at the problem whilst the indoors minister stated the Kenyan police had now no longer but given Pakistani investigators all of Sharif’s recovered belongings.