A team of Pakistani investigators said in a report released on Wednesday that the killing of a Pakistani investigative journalist in Kenya was a "premeditated murder".
Arshad Sharif, a critic of Pakistan's powerful military, was killed in late October when police opened fire on his car on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. Nairobi police later lamented the incident, saying it was a case of "mistaken identification" during a search for a similar car involved in a child abduction case.
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Sharif's killing was condemned and an independent investigation was demanded.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif announced the investigation and promised that the government's findings would be shared with the public. The military and Pakistani journalists also called for an investigation, as did Sharif's widow, Jawaria Siddique, and other family members.
The 49-year-old journalist has been living in exile since fleeing the country in August to avoid arrest in the wake of several cases, including treason charges, when he was slapped with comments on his show that the military treated him aggressively. I imagined.
Meanwhile, Islamabad police have charged two Kenyan-based Pakistani businessmen who hosted Sharif in the African country for their involvement in his murder.
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