{"id":294009,"date":"2022-11-09T09:02:54","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T04:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=294009"},"modified":"2022-11-09T09:02:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T04:02:54","slug":"arshad-killed-by-target-killing-rana-sanaullah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/arshad-killed-by-target-killing-rana-sanaullah\/","title":{"rendered":"Arshad killed by target killing: Rana Sanaullah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> ISLAMABAD<br \/>\nInterior Minister Rana Sanaullah said Tuesday slain journalist Arshad Sharif was killed in a target killing incident, as it was a pre-planned murder.<br \/>\nIn a press conference Tuesday, the minister revealed that investigating team in Arshad Sharif\u2019s murder case had returned from Kenya. \u201cInformation collected till now reveals that he was targeted,\u201d the minister said. He said that Kenyan police\u2019s claim of \u2018mistaken identity\u2019 could not be proved during investigations. \u201cIf he (Arshad) was murdered then Waqar and Khurram will also be investigated,\u201d he said. Khurram and Waqas were the last two companions of slain Arshad Sharif, one of them being his driver at the time of death. \u201cWe have decided to request the foreign minister and ambassador to provide the data collected by Kenyan officials.<br \/>\n\u201cPrima facie, it is a targeted murder as the narrative of \u2018mistaken identity\u2019 has not been proven [\u2026] and there are many doubts,\u201d he said, adding that further information would only emerge after a detailed investigation was conducted.<br \/>\nDuring his press talk, the interior minister urged provincial governments to fulfill their duties according to law and constitution and take measures to open roads and motorways under their jurisdiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said Tuesday slain journalist Arshad Sharif was killed in a target killing incident, as it was a pre-planned murder. In a press conference Tuesday, the minister revealed that investigating team in Arshad Sharif\u2019s murder case had returned from Kenya. \u201cInformation collected till now reveals that he was targeted,\u201d the minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11361,1446,9744],"class_list":{"0":"post-294009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news","8":"tag-arshad-shareef","9":"tag-rana-sanaullah","10":"tag-target-killing"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Arshad killed by target killing: Rana Sanaullah<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/arshad-killed-by-target-killing-rana-sanaullah\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Arshad killed by target killing: Rana Sanaullah\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ISLAMABAD Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said Tuesday slain journalist Arshad Sharif was killed in a target killing incident, as it was a pre-planned murder. 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