{"id":51019,"date":"2022-12-09T18:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T09:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/09\/pakistani-journalists-killing-in-kenya-a-pre-meditated"},"modified":"2022-12-09T18:00:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T09:00:26","slug":"pakistani-journalists-killing-in-kenya-a-pre-meditated-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51019","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani journalist\u2019s killing in Kenya \u2018a pre-meditated murder\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fact-finding team sent by Pakistani government finds contradictions in reports on Arshad Sharif\u2019s death<\/p>\n<p>A team set up by the Pakistani government to investigate the killing of a well-known Pakistani journalist in Nairobi said it found several contradictions in the version given by Kenyan authorities, and believes it was a case of pre-meditated murder.<\/p>\n<p>The TV journalist Arshad Sharif, who had fled Pakistan citing threats to his life, was shot dead in Nairobi in October. Kenyan officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/24\/pakistani-journalist-arshad-sharifk-illed-by-police-in-kenya-was-case-of-mistaken-identity\">said it was a case of mistaken identity<\/a> and that police hunting car thieves opened fire on his vehicle as it drove through a roadblock without stopping.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/09\/pakistani-journalists-killing-in-kenya-a-pre-meditated\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fact-finding team sent by Pakistani government finds contradictions in reports on Arshad Sharif\u2019s deathA team set up by the Pakistani government to investigate the killing of a well-known Pakistani journalist in Nairobi said it found several contradict&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,669,1086,238,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-journalist-safety","category-kenya","category-media","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51020,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51019\/revisions\/51020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}