PESHAWAR, Oct 25(ABC): PTI Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan has claimed that slain journalist Arshad Sharif has been killed in a “targeted attack.”
“No matter what anyone says, I know that Arshad Sharif became a victim of target killing,” Khan claimed, while addressing a lawyer’s convention in Peshawar.
On October 23, Sharif was shot dead by the Kenyan Police in a “mistaken identity” case while he was travelling to Nairobi from Kenya’s Magadi town.
Commenting on the journalist’s killing, Khan said: “I had received information that Sharif would be killed so that truth could be silenced.”
The former premier also claimed that Sharif was receiving threats from unknown numbers.
“I told him to leave the country, but he did not listen,” Khan shared, adding that he considered Sharif the most respected figure in journalism.
