Web Desk (LTN NEWS): Arshad Sharif, a well-known journalist and TV anchor, has been laid to rest after his family, friends, and fans said goodbye to him.
At the Shah Faisal Mosque in Islamabad, where security was very tight, funeral prayers for the journalist were said. He was buried at the H-11 cemetery in the federal capital, near the graves of his late father and brother.
Many people came to pray at the funeral of the killed journalist, and prayers were held in Lahore for those who could not be there.
Arshad Sharif was killed in Kenya, and his body was taken to Pakistan. His body was brought to the airport in Islamabad in the early hours of Wednesday. The body was given to his family at the airport in Islamabad.
In Kenya, the police said in their first report that they had killed him. The Kenyan police said Sharif was shot in the head by someone who thought he was someone else.
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At the request of his family, a post-mortem was done on his body at the PIMS hospital by an eight-person medical board. The family also asked for an ENT surgeon and an OMFS surgeon to be on the team of doctors.
The PIMS medical board also gave him an X-ray and a CT scan at the hospital.
Sources say that the first autopsy report is likely to come out today.
Professor Hashim Raza of the PIMS hospital said that forensics could take a few days to be done on the samples sent to the lab.
Sharif’s death was planned: Faisal Vawda
Faisal Vawda disagreed with the Kenyan police’s claim that Arshad Sharif was killed because of mistaken identity. He said that Sharif’s death was planned and that the plan was made in Pakistan.
The leader of the PTI said that Arshad’s death was planned and not an accident. He said that Arshad Sharif was shot down at close range.
He also said that “conspirators” forced Arshad to leave Pakistan by threatening and blackmailing him. So, he went to Dubai.
Arshad was killed on purpose to cover up the truth: Imran
Imran Khan, the leader of the PTI and a former prime minister, said that journalist Arshad Sharif was killed on purpose when he spoke at a lawyer’s convention in Peshawar on Tuesday.
“I know that Arshad Sharif was killed on purpose, no matter what anyone says,” Khan said.
“I had heard that Sharif would be killed to stop people from talking about the truth.”
The former prime minister also said that Sharif was getting threats from numbers he did not know.
“I told him to leave the country, but he didn’t listen,” Khan said. He also said that Sharif was the most respected journalist in the world.
Imran Khan performed the absent funeral prayer of Arshad Sharif in Lahore
Pak Army wants a top-level investigation
The Pakistan Army asked the government on Tuesday to look into the sad death of the journalist at a high level.
Lt Gen Babar Iftikhar, Director General (DG) of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), said, “We have asked the government to hold a high-level investigation to put an end to all these rumours.”
“Everything about this awful thing needs to be looked into.”
In response to a question about the institutions being blamed for Sharif’s death in Kenya, the DG ISPR said, “It is very unfortunate that people make accusations without any proof to back them up… I think an in-depth investigation should be done to find out what’s going on, and I think it should be done.”
The Kenyan police say this is how Arshad Sharif died.
Kenyan police took responsibility and said Sharif was killed when they opened fire on his car, thinking it was a car that had been stolen while they were looking for a stolen car.
Kenyan police said in a report that they thought the car had a child hostage because it drove through a barricade with people in it without stopping.
