{"id":183108,"date":"2022-10-24T15:04:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T12:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/?p=183108"},"modified":"2022-10-24T15:04:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T12:04:32","slug":"arshad-sharif-shot-dead-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/arshad-sharif-shot-dead-in-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Arshad Sharif shot dead in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An investigation has begun in Kenya after well-known Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif was shot dead on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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An initial police report said officers shot him while he was in a moving vehicle in a case of mistaken identity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Sharif was a critic of Pakistan’s military as well as a vocal supporter of ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The 49-year-old left Pakistan in May after complaining of harassment. He had previously been in the UK and Dubai before travelling to Kenya.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It is not known exactly what he was doing in the East African country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Kenya’s police watchdog – the Independent Police Oversight Authority (Ipoa) – said it had sent its rapid response team to the site of Sunday evening’s shooting in Kajiado county near the capital, Nairobi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The team will be investigating the “alleged police killing of a Pakistani national”, Ipoa chairperson Ann Makori told journalists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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An initial police report about the incident suggests that Sharif was in a car that officers mistakenly believed to have been stolen. The officers shot at the vehicle when it failed to stop at a roadblock.<\/p>\n

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Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif (no relation) tweeted that\u00a0he was “deeply saddened by the shocking news\u00a0of journalist Arshad Sharif’s tragic death”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb warned people against speculating about the circumstances surrounding the death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In a brief message on Twitter,\u00a0Sharif’s wife Javeria Siddique said she lost a “friend, husband and my favourite journalist”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Calling for a “proper judicial investigation”,\u00a0former Prime Minister Khan said he was “shocked”\u00a0at what he described as a “murder”, adding that he “paid the ultimate price for speaking the truth”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Khan was removed from power in April after losing a vote of no confidence. Sharif, who had backed Mr Khan, then started complaining that the country’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) was harassing him and left the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An investigation has begun in Kenya after well-known Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif was shot dead on Sunday. An initial police report said officers shot him while he was in a moving vehicle in a case of mistaken identity. Sharif was a critic of Pakistan’s military as well as a vocal supporter of ousted Prime Minister […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10221280388112155_325455220908133":"","twitter_917774835383787521_917774835383787521":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183108"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183110,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183108\/revisions\/183110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}