Andleeb Abbas<\/p>\n
Murder in the Kenyan Safari. Seems like the title of an Agatha Christie novel. Her famous best seller \u201cMurder on the Orient Express\u201d got so much notice that it was turned into a movie that is still talked about, watched and followed. The tragic murder of Arshad Shareef in the back and beyond of Kenya is much more gory and surreal but is a reality. Try as they may, the government could not bury it with time. The rituals were performed by the government. It set up a fact-finding committee. It got reported, yes. \u201cNoticed,\u201d yes and no. Noticed by the masses. Unnoticed by the few who matter. Till it could no longer be \u201cunnoticed\u201d. The Supreme Judge of the apex court finally issued a Suo moto on the Arshad Shareef murder case. The appropriate comment is \u201cit\u2019s never too late.\u201d
\nAs many as 43 days ago, Arshad Sharif was shot at point-blank range in his head and chest, presumably in a car on the outskirts of Kenya. Since then, the cat and mouse game is on. The government and the state institutions are creating a tragedy of errors. Declaring it as an accident by Kenyan Police due to mistaken identity to declaring it a planned murder has taken weeks and weeks. Committees and judicial enquiries were made and abandoned. The fact-finding committee that was formed has produced a report after visiting the safari land for weeks. It is a 400-page thick document that says more or less those things that have been now established in the media circles. What it does not say and what the real objective of the committee was, \u201cWho dunnit?\u201d That said, it does make obvious the attempts to mire this mystery in so much farcical confusion as to make it look like a lost cause. In doing so, it provides fodder to the hard reality queries that give the answer:
\nWho was threatening and filing multiple FIRs on Arshad Sharif?-16 FIRs were launched against Arshad on frivolous grounds. Islamabad High court order shows they had no base. Justice Athar Minallah stated in the order, \u201cThe petitioners are engaged in the profession of journalism and the criminal cases have been registered in the context of their speech. They have no criminal record. It appears to the Court that, prima facie, the petitioners have reasonable grounds to believe that criminal cases have been registered for other than bonafide reasons.\u201d.
\nThose who registered and those who engineered it.
\nWhy did the government not respond to his plea for protection?
\n\u2013Arshad Sharif wrote a letter to the President and the Prime minister, mentioning the court order and the continued threats. The President also wrote a letter to the Prime minister. Why was no action taken? This is what is called \u201ccriminal silence.\u201d Had action been taken, the murder could have been prevented.
\nWho \u201cmanaged\u201d to arrange his forced exit from Dubai?
\n\u2013Details mentioned by the family clearly state that the Dubai officials told them that they were asked by Pakistani officials to deport him. Dubai officials were considerate enough to allow him to leave Dubai for a country of his choice. This \u201cforced exit\u201d can be traced.
\nWhy did the fact-finding report not trace it?
\n\u2013This omission is a confession.
\nWhy has the government not taken possession of his laptop and phone?
\n\u2013The biggest evidence to trace his murderers would have been his laptop and the phone.
\nWhy has that disappeared?
\n\u2013The fact-finding report mentions a meeting in a hotel lobby just before Arshad was murdered.
\nWhy was the recording not shared with them?
\n\u2013This overlooking of main facts is what makes the report a select, copy, paste.
\nWhy was post mortem report not handed over to the family?
\n\u2013Basic human rights violations were done post his body arrived in Pakistan. The family was not given the report. The hospital would say go to the police, and the police would send them to the hospital. Whoever was denying this basic right was part of the murder plan.
\nWho leaked the post-mortem report to a TV channel?
\n\u2013And then, that terrible graphic program conducted by a TV channel to show the post-mortem findings.
\nHow was that done?
\n\u2013Whoever managed it was obviously the guilty party.
\nWhy did FIA not ensure a response from relevant people?
\n\u2013The FIA has been on a rampage of harassing people with mere words, commas and full stops.
\nWhy were they unable to find 14 people who registered cases against Arshad?
\n\u2013The person impeding this evidence is the person behind this crime.
\nWhy has FIA not published full statements and evidence from the immediate family?
\n\u2013The family was privy to the names of those who were threatening Arshad.
\nWhy was the information edited and posted selectively in the report?
\n\u2013Those who are forcing FIA to do so are the crime sponsors.
\nWhy is the report not publishing the real information provided by relevant people?
\n\u2013The report does not mention all facts stated by other anchors etc who were being given the same threats.
\nAgain, it is an obvious \u201cdeletion\u201d program being managed by those who are afraid of being caught. Faisal Vawda, who did that dramatic press conference and dozens of TV programs claiming he had all the information, did not respond to FIA questions. Those who let him get away with this hiding of information are those who planned Arshad Sharif\u2019s murder.
\nWhy has FIR not been allowed to be registered by the family of Arshad Sharif?
\n\u2013This is the biggest giveaway. FIR registration is a family right. To ask a random SHO to register is an indirect confession of malafide mischief. The family has rejected the FIR. The mother of Arshad Sharif has written a letter to the Chief Justice explaining the reasons.
\nA mother in a wheelchair seeking justice. A family crying for justice. An old woman demanding the truth. The public weeping and praying. What could be more obvious than a woman who has no political, financial or social agenda other than to get justice for her son making an impassioned appeal? She writes in the appeal that Arshad had requested them before leaving for Dubai on the 10th of August 2022, \u201d If anything happens to him, Lt General Qamar Javed Bajwa, Lt General Nadeem Anjum, Major General Faisal Naseer, Brig Muhammad Shafiq Malik, Brig Faheem Raza, Col Nauman and Col Rizwan will be responsible.\u201d
\nWe are all responsible for doing our bit to reach the truth-for Arshad\u2019s mother and many more mothers, wives, and children who are victims of this shoot, shut and shove system. In Agatha Christie\u2019s novels like \u201cMurder on the Orient Express,\u201d till the very end, nobody could tell who the murderer was. In the \u201cMurder on the Kenyan Safari,\u201d everybody from the first FIR could tell who did it. But the law enforcement agencies like the police and state institutions like FIA are all playing an \u201cI know but I can\u2019t \u201d game. It is up to the highest office of justice to decide: do they also \u201cknow but not know\u201d or will they rise to their stature and restore the true spirit of the oath of \u201ctruth and nothing but the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Andleeb Abbas Murder in the Kenyan Safari. Seems like the title of an Agatha Christie novel. Her famous best seller \u201cMurder on the Orient Express\u201d got so much notice that it was turned into a movie that is still talked about, watched and followed. The tragic murder of Arshad Shareef in the back and beyond […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5057,6663,11813,11812],"class_list":{"0":"post-300667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-article","7":"tag-andleeb-abbas","8":"tag-facts","9":"tag-farce","10":"tag-fiction"},"yoast_head":"\n