ISLAMABAD: The private airline’s plane carrying slain senior journalist Arshad Sharif’s body landed at Islamabad International Airport late yesterday night.

The family members of the slain journalist and former anchorperson of ARY News Arshad Sharif were present at the Islamabad airport to receive his body.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf central leaders Fawad Chaudhry and Murad Saeed were also present at the airport. Arshad Sharif’s funeral prayer will be offered at Faisal Masjid and he will be laid to rest in Islamabad on Thursday. Arshad Sharif was shot dead in Kenya by the local police on Sunday night along the Nairobi-Magadi highway in a “mistaken identity case”. The official police statement later expressing “regrets on the unfortunate incident” and saying an investigation was underway.

According to Kenyan media, Arshad Sharif was shot in the head and killed by police after he and his driver allegedly breached a roadblock.

Published in The Daily National Courier, October, 26 2022

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