Arshad Sharif: Outspoken Pakistani journalist killed in Kenya

Oct 24, 2022
A prominent Pakistani investigative journalist critical of the country’s powerful military has been killed in Kenya nearly two mo
Oct 24, 2022
A prominent Pakistani investigative journalist critical of the country’s powerful military has been killed in Kenya nearly two months after he left Pakistan.

“I lost friend, husband and my favourite journalist today, as per police he was shot in Kenya,” Javeria Siddique tweeted about her husband Arshad Sharif’s death on Sunday night.

The 49-year-old journalist fled the country in August to avoid arrest after he was slapped with multiple cases, including sedition charges over an interview with Shahbaz Gill – a close aide of former prime minister Imran Khan – during which Gill made comments deemed offensive to the military.

Alleging harassment by state institutions as well threats to his life he moved to Dubai in August and later relocated to Kenya.

Al Jazeera’s Laura Burdon-Manley reports.

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