ISLAMABAD: The wife of slain journalist Arshad Sharif and senior media personalities renewed their demand for a judicial commission to probe his killing this week, as they observed his third death anniversary in a solemn gathering at the National Press Club (NPC) in Islamabad.
Sharif, an outspoken critic of Pakistan’s government and its powerful military, was killed when police shot at his car on the outskirts of Kenya’s capital Nairobi in Oct. 23, 2022. Kenyan police later said the killing was a case of mistaken identity. However, a team of Pakistani investigators who probed his alleged murder, released a report in December 2022 saying that Sharif’s killing was a “planned, targeted assassination.”
Sharif, who hosted a current affairs show on a local television channel, had to leave the country after several cases related to charges of sedition and others were filed against him shortly before his killing. He was believed to have been in the United Arab Emirates since he left Pakistan and had traveled to Kenya where he was killed.
The late journalist’s mother had also written a letter to Pakistan’s then chief justice in November 2022, demanding a “high-powered judicial commission” probe Sharif’s killing. She had demanded the inclusion of senior Supreme Court judges in the commission.
