The Ministry of Interior has formed an investigation team to probe the murder\u00a0of journalist Arshad Sharif.
\nThe ministry Interior has issued a notification in this regard. The FIA, IB, and ISI officers are part of the three-member investigation team.
\nFIA Director Athar Waheed, Deputy Director-General IB Shahid Hamid and ISI Lt Col Saad Ahmed are part of the probe team.
\nAccording to the notification issued by the interior ministry, the investigation team will immediately leave for Kenya and submit its report to the ministry.
\nThe foreign ministry and the officials of the Pakistani High Commission in Kenya will assist the team.
\nOn October 23, Sharif was shot and killed by the Kenyan police in a \u201cmistaken identity\u201d case while he was travelling to Nairobi from Kenya\u2019s Magadi town.
\nThe Kenyan police, in its report, admitted that Arshad Sharif was shot in the head in a mistaken identity case.
\nArshad Sharif’s body was brought to Islamabad in the early hours of Wednesday. Members of his family received his body at the Islamabad airport.
\nThe family announced that his funeral prayers will be offered at the Shah Faisal Mosque Islamabadbad at 2pm on Thursday. Later, he will be laid to rest at the H-11 cemetery in the federal capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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