The Pakistani government has dispatched three senior security officers to Kenya to investigate the assassination of journalist Arshad Sharif.
The team includes the country’s director of the Federal Investigation Agency, Athar Waheed, and the Intelligence Bureau’s deputy director-general, Omar Shahid Hamid.
On Sunday night, Sharif was killed by Kenyan police officers in what the authorities claimed was a case of mistaken identity.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, whose administration has been the target of Sharif’s critical stories, said on Monday that Kenyan President William Ruto had assured him of an open investigation into the killing.
According to a statement issued by Kenya’s National Police Service (NPS), officers manning a roadblock on Magadi Road mistook Sharif and his brother Khurram Ahmed for kidnappers trafficking a child from Starehe in Kenya’s capital Nairobi.
Sharif has been described as a brave man who defied all odds in a country regarded as one of the most dangerous for journalists. He used to criticize Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, who took power in April 2022 after former cricket star Imran Khan was deposed in a vote of no confidence.
