The private airline’s plane carrying killed senior journalist Arshad Sharif’s body landed at Islamabad International Airport on Tuesday night.
Family members of the slain journalist and previous anchorperson of ARY News Arshad Sharif were present at the Islamabad airport to receive his body.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) central leaders Fawad Chaudhry and Murad Saeed were also present at the airport.
Arshad Sharif’s funeral prayer offered at Faisal Masjid and he laid to rest in Islamabad on Thursday.
He shot dead in Kenya by the local police on Sunday night along the Nairobi-Magadi highway in a “mistaken identity case”. The official police declaration later expressing “regrets on the unfortunate incident” and saying an investigation was underway.
According to Kenyan media, Arshad Sharif shot in the head and killed by police later he and his driver allegedly broke a roadblock.
An experienced journalist, Arshad Sharif was one of Pakistan’s top news anchors. ARY News show Powerplay was Arshad’s last outing on a national television. He had worked for the country’s top news channels and newspapers in the past. He was awarded ‘Presidential Pride of Performance’ for his brilliant journalism in the year 2019.
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The journalist’s family has demanded the media and general public to refrain from gossips and spreading rumors about Arshad Sharif’s death in this hour of grief for his loved ones.