Register FIR of Arshad Sharif’s murder by tonight, SC orders

The Supreme Courtroom of Pakistan ordered on Tuesday the federal government to register an FIR within the Arshad Sharif homicide case by tonight.

The apex courtroom’s order got here throughout a listening to on Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial’s suo motu discover of the “brutal” homicide of the journalist in Kenya.

A five-member bench, headed by the CJP, heard the case. Aside from the CJP, the bench included justices Ijaz Ul Ahsan, Jamal Khan Mandokhail, Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi and Muhammad Ali Mazhar.

The courtroom stated that the CJP has issued notices to the inside secretary, international secretary, info secretary, director generals of Federal Investigation Authority (FIA), Intelligence Bureau, and president of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists.

Final week, former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan wrote a letter to the CJP demanding a judicial inquiry into Sharif’s killing. The journalist was shot lifeless in Kenya in October.

PM Shehbaz Sharif, too, had written to the CJP for the formation of a judicial fee to analyze Sharif’s killing and a requirement was additionally made by the slain journalist’s mom.

“The journalist neighborhood within the nation and the general public at massive are deeply distressed and anxious in regards to the demise of the senior journalist and are in search of the courtroom’s scrutiny of the matter,” stated the apex courtroom in a press release saying the suo motu motion.

The homicide

Journalist Arshad Sharif was killed on the evening of October 23 in Kenya by Kenyan Normal Service Unit (GSU) officers as he was being pushed to Nairobi.

The Kenyan police had initially claimed that the journalist was shot in a case of mistaken id.

The federal government had shaped a two-member group, together with FIA and IB officers, to probe the homicide. The group had travelled to Kenya and UAE.

Final month, FIA had instructed a Senate committee that it’s getting ready a report following the return of the investigation group from Kenya.