Senior journalist Arshad Sharif will be laid to rest in Islamabad today.
The family announced that his funeral prayers will be offered at the Shah Faisal Mosque Islamabad at 2pm on Thursday. Later, he will be laid to rest at the H-11 cemetery in the federal capital.
Arshad Sharif’s body was flown to Pakistan from Kenya yesterday in the early hours of Wednesday. Members of his family received his body at the Islamabad airport.
In Kenya, the country’s police, in its first report, admitted to killing him. The Kenyan police said that Sharif was shot in the head in a mistaken identity case.
At his family’s request, an eight-member medical board of the PIMS hospital carried out the postmortem on his body at the hospital. An ENT surgeon and an OMFS surgeon were also included in the team of doctors at the family’s request.
The PIMS medical board also conducted an X-ray and CT scan of his body at the hospital.
Arshad Sharif to be laid to rest in Islamabad today
