Investigators summon CCTV footage of Arshad Sharif’s Dubai residence

• Two-member workforce sought particulars involving Arshad Sharif from Dubai officers. 
• Group seeks CCTV footage of Arshad’s actions. 
• Arshad was allegedly killed by the Kenyan police close to Nairobi. 

ISLAMABAD: Investigators probing the assassination of famend journalist Arshad Sharif, who was killed in Kenya, sought particulars in a second letter addressed to Dubai authorities.

Sharif was invited to go to and keep in Kenya by Nairobi-based property developer Waqar Ahmad, brother of Khurram Ahmad who was driving the journalist on the fateful evening of October 23, when he died in a hail of bullets rained on him by the Kenyan police at a abandoned space.

The 2-member investigation committee — comprising FIA Director Athar Wahid and IB Deputy Director Normal Omar Shahid Hamid — fashioned by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif requested the authorities to offer full information, together with CCTV footage of Arshad Sharif’s residence and his actions within the UAE from August 10 to twenty.

The investigators tasked with trying into Sharif’s homicide, additionally sought the reply as to why Arshad Sharif’s Dubai visa was cancelled. Additionally they demanded the decision knowledge information of the slain journalist’s cell phone.

The probe workforce additionally summoned the telephone information of Salman Iqbal and Tariq Wasi.

UAE official met Arshad Sharif on August 19, says report

The investigation workforce stated in a report that an official of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities, Salim Abdullah, reportedly met with Sharif on the Resort Millennium Al Basher, Al Bashra Dubai on August 19 (between 2pm to 4pm UAE time)”.

The Pakistani investigators wrote to the Pakistan Consulate Normal in Dubai to assist the Pakistani workforce within the identification of Salim Abdullah in coordination with the Dubai police.

Sharif reached Kenya on August 20 on an invite letter despatched to him by Waqar Ahmad, whose brother Khurram Ahmad was driving him when he was assassinated. Waqar advised the police that he invited and hosted Sharif at Tariq Wasi’s request.

The Pakistani fact-finding workforce has written a second letter to the Dubai authorities to offer data which has not been shared until now regardless of two requests.