Pakistani Journalist Arshad was assassinated in Kenya; new report reveals
Pakistani Journalist Arshad was assassinated in Kenya and not a case of mistaken identity according to a new report reveals
Pakistani Journalist Arshad was assassinated in Kenya and not a case of mistaken identity according to a new report reveals.
According to recent sources, the death of Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif in Kenya in October was most likely planned in advance.
The National Police Service had previously claimed that the journalist’s murder was the result of a case of mistaken identity, but findings by Pakistani detectives dispatched to Kenya contradict that claim, according to media sources.
Prior to this, Kenyan officials had asserted that Sharif had been shot by GSU officers at a checkpoint on the Nairobi-Magadi Road.
The Kenyan police’s account, however, was labeled as a ballistic impossibility in a 600-page study by detectives sent to Kenya, further putting Kenya in a precarious diplomatic position over the killing of the foreigner.
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“Both the members of the (fact-finding team) have a considered understanding that it is a case of planned targeted assassination with transnational characters rather than a case of mistaken identity,” said the report, according to Reuters.
According to the report, the investigation’s findings on the bullet patterns did not indicate that the car was moving when the shots were fired.
The wounds caused by the bullets further imply that Sharif was shot at close range.
Additionally, it’s possible that one of the shots that struck the deceased was fired inside the car.
According to the media reports, it is suspected that the firing was done, “after taking proper aim, at a stationary vehicle.”
At the time of the shooting, Sharif was in the car with his Kenyan host Kuram Ahmed, who was not injured in the shooting.
It has also emerged that a secondary autopsy conducted on the body of the Pakistani journalist showed that there were 12 injury marks on the body an indication that he had been tortured.
He was also missing some fingernails when the body was flown home for interment.
Meanwhile in Kenya, the National Police Service is investigating the matter despite earlier claiming responsibility for the killing of the journalist.
The Independent Policing Oversight Authority (Ipoa) is also investigating the matter with the aim of unearthing police involvement in the murder.
At the time of his killing Sharif is said to have been on the run from his country as he was afraid for his life.
The vocal television journalist had been at loggerheads with the Pakistani government which had reportedly been looking to charge him with several counts of treason.
Sharif had stayed in Dubai for a while before moving to Kenya where he stayed with brothers Kuram and Waqar Ahmed.
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