ISLAMABAD, Oct 27 (FD): Renowned journalist and television anchorperson Arshad Sharif will receive the last salutations from his family, friends and fans today as they offer funeral prayers for his eternal peace this afternoon.
The journalist’s funeral prayers will be offered at the Shah Faisal Mosque Islamabad at 2pm today, his family said. Later, he will be buried at the H-11 cemetery in the federal capital.
Following his murder in Kenya, Arshad Sharif’s body was taken to Pakistan. A flight carrying his body landed at the Islamabad airport in the early hours of Wednesday. Members of his family received the body at the Islamabad airport.
In Kenya, the country’s police, in its first report, admitted to killing him. The Kenyan police said that Sharif was shot in the head in a mistaken identity case.
At his family’s request, an eight-member medical board of the PIMS hospital carried out the postmortem on his body at the hospital. An ENT surgeon and an OMFS surgeon were also included in the team of doctors at the family’s request.
The PIMS medical board also conducted an X-ray and CT scan of his body at the hospital.
Sources said that the initial postmortem report is expected to be released today.
Professor Hashim Raza of the PIMS hospital said that forensics of the samples sent to the laboratory may take some days.
