At least 25,000 people pay their respects to the seasoned journalist who was shot dead in Kenya.
After being shot and died in Kenya under unknown circumstances, journalist Arshad Sharif was buried as thousands of people screamed “revolution.”
Early on Thursday, prayers for his funeral were said at the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad. Many of the thousands of attendees carried Pakistani flags and placards, as well as those of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the political party founded by former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Kahn.
The burial was held the day after Sharif’s body was brought back to the United States from Kenya, where he died on Sunday after being shot while riding in a car with a friend on the Nairobi-Magadi highway.
Sharif was one of Pakistan’s best newscasters. He attracted a sizable following from all walks of life. To pay their last respects, many people came to the mosque.
The 49-year-old journalist was fatally shot in what the Kenyan police described as a “mistaken identity” event, and they apologised for the “unfortunate tragedy.”
An extensive police presence was set up at the mosque to control the gathering, which one police official in Islamabad believed to number between 25,000 and 30,000.
