ISLAMABAD: Kenyan police issued an initial statement on Monday noon claiming the killing of a famous Pakistani TV anchorperson was a ‘mistake’.
The circumstances surrounding the killing of Arshad Sharif indicate some loopholes in the statement of the police and the incident.
Kenyan police said they tried to stop the car, carrying Arshad Sharif, at a picket, but the driver did not stop. Police chased the car and during the shooting Arshad Sharif was killed when a bullet hit him in the head.
Kenyan Police gave a new twist to the tragic incident by issuing another statement on Monday evening.
Linking the tragic incident to a mistake, Kenyan police further said that they were informed about a similar car involved in the kidnapping of a child.
When the cops spotted the car of Arshad Sharif, being driven by a local driver, the car did not stop at the police picket, and instead, the driver sped away. Resultantly, the police chased the car, opened fire and a bullet pierced through the head of the TV anchorperson, leading to his instant death.
Unanswered Questions
Kenyan police’s initial statement makes it clear that Arshad Sharif was assassinated by the local police.
Why did the police target Arshad Sharif and spare the local driver, who did not stop at the picket _ if this claim is true?
Why did the bullet hit the head of Arshad Sharif while his Kenyan driver remained safe, perhaps with a minor injury?
Normally, policemen target the tyres of the vehicle and try to arrest the kidnappers in case there is no exchange of fires. But in the case of Arshad Sharif, Kenyan police acted in a hurry and opened straight one-way firing on the car and killed the Pakistani anchorperson on the spot and later on termed the incident a mistake.
There is no information about the actual car which the Kenyan police were looking for in the kidnapping of a child.
In simple words, the assassination of Arshad Sharif is not just a ‘mistake’ and the statement of Kenyan police reminds us of a typical style of twists of the incident to distort the facts of the tragedy.
The incident has shocked the Pakistanis within the country and abroad and a high-level commission must be established to find out facts of this gruesome police ‘mistake’ of the killing of a high-profile Pakistani TV anchorperson.
