Oct 28(ABC): A two-member fact-finding committee set up by the federal interior ministry to investigate the murder of renowned journalist Arshad Sharif will leave for Kenya today, reported on Friday.
The government had initially formed a three-member team with officers of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Intelligence Bureau (IB) as its members.
However, the number of team members has been reduced to two. The team now includes FIA Director Athar Waheed and IB’s Deputy Director General Omar Shahid Hamid.
The inquiry body will leave for Kenya this morning from Islamabad via Doha. The team will be staying in the country for 15 days.
The team has been provided with relevant documents, including Arshad Sharif’s postmortem report.
According to the notification issued by the interior ministry, the investigation team will immediately leave for Kenya and submit its report to the ministry.
Apart from the two-member team, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has also announced that a judicial commission headed by a high court judge will conduct a probe into Sharif’s killing.
The Kenyan police, in its report, admitted that Sharif was shot in the head in a mistaken identity case.
Sharif’s body was brought to Islamabad in the early hours of Wednesday [October 26]. Members of his family received his body at the Islamabad airport.
His funeral prayers were offered at the Shah Faisal Mosque Islamabad at 2pm on Thursday. Later, he was laid to rest at the H-11 cemetery in the federal capital.
