{"id":11655,"date":"2022-10-24T17:16:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T17:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=11655"},"modified":"2022-10-24T17:16:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T17:16:53","slug":"following-arshad-sharifs-killing-pakistan-becomes-top-trend-on-kenyan-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/following-arshad-sharifs-killing-pakistan-becomes-top-trend-on-kenyan-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Following Arshad Sharif’s killing, Pakistan becomes top trend on Kenyan Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following Arshad Sharif<\/a>‘s killing, Pakistan becomes top trend on Kenyan Twitter. After senior journalist and anchorperson Arshad Sharif was shot dead by the Kenyan police Sunday night in a \u201cmistaken identity\u201d case while he was travelling to Nairobi from the country\u2019s Magadi town, the topic has become the top trend on Kenyan Twitter.<\/p>\n

The trend shows that the tragic incident has become the talk of the town across Kenya, garnering 499,000 tweets since the Kenyan police issued a statement regarding the incident.<\/p>\n

Earlier today, the Kenyan police claimed that Arshad was shot dead in a\u00a0 \u201cmistaken identity\u201d case while he was travelling to Nairobi from the country\u2019s Magadi town.<\/p>\n

In this regard, the Chairperson of the Independent Policing Oversight Authority, Kenya Anne Makori held a press conference on Monday and confirmed that on the evening of October 23, a Pakistani journalist, named Arshad Muhammad Sharif, 50, was shot by the Kenyan police within the limits of Kajiado County.<\/p>\n

Read more:\u00a0Senior journalist Arshad Sharif shot dead in ‘mistaken identity’ case: Kenyan media<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“There’s an alleged police killing of a Pakistani national at Tinga market, Kajiado county, last evening. Our rapid response team has already been dispatched,” she said, adding that a probe related to the incident is underway and that the Independent Policing Oversight Authority will carry out a transparent investigation into the killing of Sharif.<\/p>\n

PM Shehbaz asks Kenya to launch an unbiased probe into Arshad Sharif’s killing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday moved the Kenyan head of the state to make sure the investigation into the slaying of journalist Arshad Sharif in a “mistaken identity” police firing was unbiased, just, and quick.<\/p>\n

Sharif was gunned down in Kenya on Sunday night when police, tracking down a jacked car, opened indiscriminate fire on the journalist’s automobile mistaking it for the stolen vehicle, also suspected to have a minor hostage in it, when it sped through a manned roadblock without stopping, according to a Kenyan police report.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/CMShehbaz\/status\/1584505902157074435?s=20&t=tC7LwM_JLvWUiDvqOncotQ<\/p>\n

\u201cJust had a telephonic call with Kenyan President William Ruto about the tragic death of Arshad Sharif in Kenya. I requested him to ensure fair & transparent investigation into shocking incident. He promised all-out help including fast-tracking the process of return of the body to Pakistan,\u201d the Prime Minister tweeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following Arshad Sharif‘s killing, Pakistan becomes top trend on Kenyan Twitter. After senior journalist and anchorperson Arshad Sharif was shot dead by the Kenyan police Sunday night in a \u201cmistaken identity\u201d case while he was travelling to Nairobi from the country\u2019s Magadi town, the topic has become the top trend on Kenyan Twitter. The trend […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,3],"tags":[5627,1463,5476,7303],"class_list":["post-11655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","category-world","tag-arshad-sharif","tag-kenya","tag-pm-shehbaz","tag-william-ruto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}