Journalist Arshad Sharif died in Kenya reportedly after being shot, his wife Javeria Siddique confirmed early on Monday morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cI lost friend, husband and my favourite journalist [Arshad Sharif] today, as per police he was shot in Kenya,\u201d she tweeted.<\/p>\n
Foreign Office Spokesperson Asim Iftikhar said Pakistan\u2019s High Commission in Kenya was ascertaining information from the authorities.<\/p>\n
Authorities in both countries are yet to confirm the journalist\u2019s death and the circumstances surrounding it. Some Pakistani media outlets had initially stated that Sharif had been shot at but later said he died in an accident.<\/p>\n
However, Sharif\u2019s wife later tweeted that the journalist was shot dead.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Kenyan media quoted the local police as saying that Sharif was shot dead by police in a case of \u201cmistaken identity\u201d. It said the incident took place on Sunday night along the Nairobi-Magadi highway.<\/p>\n
Sharif, who was a fierce critic of the incumbent government and the country\u2019s military establishment, had left Pakistan earlier this year after sedition cases were registered against him in different cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Journalist Arshad Sharif died in Kenya reportedly after being shot, his wife Javeria Siddique confirmed early on Monday morning. \u201cI lost friend, husband and my favourite journalist [Arshad Sharif] today, as per police he was shot in Kenya,\u201d she tweeted. Foreign Office Spokesperson Asim Iftikhar said Pakistan\u2019s High Commission in Kenya was ascertaining information from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-291237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n