{"id":11919,"date":"2022-11-08T12:49:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T12:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=11919"},"modified":"2022-11-08T12:51:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T12:51:59","slug":"sanaullah-says-arshad-sharif-killed-in-targeted-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/sanaullah-says-arshad-sharif-killed-in-targeted-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanaullah says Arshad Sharif killed in \u2018targeted attack\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sanaullah says Arshad Sharif killed in \u2018targeted attack\u2019. Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah<\/a> on Tuesday said that journalist Arshad Sharif was killed in a \u201ctargeted attack\u201d, stating that no evidence was found to support the narrative that he was shot dead in a case of \u201cmistaken identity\u201d.<\/p>\n

On the night of October 23, Sharif was shot dead in Kenya allegedly by the local police. Initially, the Kenyan media quoted the local police as saying Sharif was shot dead by police in a case of \u201cmistaken identity\u201d.<\/p>\n

However, reports from the Kenyan media later reconstructed the events surrounding the killing, stating that an occupant in Sharif\u2019s car at the time of his killing was believed to have shot at paramilitary General Service Unit (GSU) officers.<\/p>\n

The government subsequently formed a team which travelled to Kenya to investigate the killing.<\/p>\n

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Addressing a press conference in Islamabad today, Sanaullah said that the team had briefed him about the investigation after returning from Kenya.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have decided to request the foreign minister and ambassador to provide the data collected by Kenyan officials.<\/p>\n

\u201cPrima facie, it is a targeted murder as the narrative of \u2018mistaken identity\u2019 has not been proven [\u2026] and there are many doubts,\u201d he said, adding that further information would only emerge after a detailed investigation was conducted.<\/p>\n

Sanaullah also said that shots were fired at Sharif\u2019s car in a \u201cvery technical manner\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow did the police know where Arshad was sitting [in the car]? In my view, the shooters knew who Arshad Sharif was and where he was sitting in the vehicle. The driver also knew what was about to happen where.\u201d<\/p>\n

The minister said that the police had not yet returned the belongings acquired from the crime scene. \u201cWe have gotten a lot of things [\u2026] but some of them are still in their [Kenyan police\u2019s] custody.\u201d<\/p>\n

Talking about the grievances of Sharif\u2019s mother regarding the investigation, Sanaullah said that the chief justice could take her feedback regarding it and appoint a new head of the commission to probe the murder.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would be more satisfied with that. I am hopeful that the suspects would be identified soon,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Last week, in a letter to the SC, Sharif\u2019s mother had requested the CJP to set up a judicial commission comprising senior Supreme Court judges to determine the real motive and identify criminals behind her son\u2019s killing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sanaullah says Arshad Sharif killed in \u2018targeted attack\u2019. Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Tuesday said that journalist Arshad Sharif was killed in a \u201ctargeted attack\u201d, stating that no evidence was found to support the narrative that he was shot dead in a case of \u201cmistaken identity\u201d. On the night of October 23, Sharif was shot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[5627,5600,5889],"class_list":["post-11919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-arshad-sharif","tag-pmln-government","tag-rana-sana-ullah-khan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11919","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=11919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}