Journalist Arshad Sharif killed in Nairobi, Kenya
The 49-year-old journalist, who fled Pakistan in August after multiple cases were filed for criticizing the military, was shot dead in Kenya. A prominent Pakistani investigative journalist Arshad Sharif critical of the country's powerful military has been killed in Kenya nearly two months after he left Pakistan.
"I lost my friend, husband and my favorite journalist today, according to the police he was shot in Kenya," Jawaria Siddique tweeted about the death of her husband Arshad Sharif on Sunday night.
Alleging harassment by state agencies as well as threats to his life, he moved to Dubai in August and later to Kenya.
ARY, the channel Sharif worked for for the past eight years, was briefly shut down in August for airing "false, hateful and seditious" content. The channel announc...