• The plane carrying body of the veteran journalist has landed at the Islamabad airport.
• The body would be shifted to Quaid e Azam International Airport’s mortuary after the family members’ seeing his face.
• Arshad Sharif’s son will arrive in Pakistan from Canada on October 26 evening.

ISLAMABAD: Family members of slain journalist Arshad Sharif, who was shot dead in Kenya, have reached at the Islamabad airport to receive his body.

Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) leaders Murad Saeed and Fawad Chaudhry, Bol News team, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah, several journalists, anchorpersons and political leaders have also reached at the airport.

The plane carrying body of the veteran journalist has landed at the Islamabad airport.

The body would be shifted to Quaid e Azam International Airport’s mortuary after the family members’ seeing his face.

Arshad Sharif’s son will arrive in Pakistan from Canada on October 26 evening. Then, the late Bol News anchorperson’s funeral prayer would be offered on October 27 at Faisal Masjid, Islamabad.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the body of late Arshad Sharif was transported at 0125 hours from Nairobi to Doha via Qatar Airways flight QR-1342 early on Tuesday.

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“The onward flight QR0632 will leave Doha at 1935 hours today (Oct 25) and arrive in Islamabad at 0105 hours in the wee hours of October 26 (Wednesday).

“Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Kenya Saqlain Syeda oversaw the arrangements at Nairobi Airport for the repatriation of the body,” the ministry had said.

Earlier Javeria Siddique, the wife of journalist Arshad Sharif, confirmed that the dead body of her late husband will be arriving in Pakistan and the burial will take place in the H-11 cemetery on Thursday.

Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb confirmed that the postmortem of Arshad Sharif was completed. She said Pakistani authorities are also in contact with Kenyan officials regarding the repatriation of Arshad Sharif’s body.

On Monday, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif held a conversation with the Kenyan President to expedite the repatriation process. Sharif also conveyed serious concern over the death of senior journalist Arshad Sharif and emphasized an impartial and transparent investigation into the incident.