Reports from a team set up by the Pakistani government to investigate the death of a journalist from Pakistan in Kenya, revealed that the death may have been a premeditated murder.
The team claims it found several contradictions in the versions and reports given by the Kenyan authorities.
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Broadcast journalist, Arshad Sharif was shot dead in Kenya in October over what the Kenyan police claim was a case of mistaken identity.
Reuters reported that a two-member fact-finding team from Pakistan had traveled down to Kenya to investigate the journalist’s death.
After a series of interviews, a visit to the crime scene and a thorough examination of Sharif’s phone and computers, the team claim it was a pre-meditated murder and not a case of mistaken identity.
“Both the member of the (fact-finding team) have a considered understanding that it is a case of planned targeted assassination with transnational characters rather than a case of mistaken identity,” a report from the team read.
The 600-page report submitted to Pakistan’s Supreme Court said the shooting was done after a proper aim at a stationary vehicle.
“It is more probably that the firing was done, after taking proper aim, at a stationary vehicle,” the report added.
The Interior Minister of Pakistan, Minister Rana Sanaullah speaking before the release of the report said the journalist’s body had bruises and torture marks, suggesting that it was a targeted killing.
