KARACHI: Authorities in Pakistan’s Sindh province have set up a three-member committee to probe journalist Khawar Hussain’s death in the Sanghar district under mysterious circumstances, police said on Sunday.
Hussain’s body was recovered from his hometown of Sanghar outside a local restaurant on Hyderabad Road on Saturday night, according to police officials. The journalist sustained a gunshot wound to his head.
Police said the death appeared to be a suicide after they found a pistol clutched in Hussain’s hand at the site of the incident, local media reported. But the claim was widely rejected by Hussain’s friends and associates on social media.
Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah ordered a probe into the death, after which DIG Crime and Investigation Wing Amir Farooqi notified a three-member investigation committee on Sunday evening.
“The committee will do preliminary investigation and ascertain facts from all angles,” read a notification issued from Farooqi’s office.
