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Senior journalist and television anchorperson Arshad Sharif was laid to rest in Islamabad’s H-11 cemetery on Thursday.
The journalist was laid to rest after his funeral prayers were offered amid high security at Islamabad’s Faisal Mosque.
Scores of people including members of journalists fraternity attended Sharif’s funeral prayer.
Meanwhile, PTI Chairman Imran Khan along with other PTI leaders offered the funeral prayers of the slain journalist in Lahore absentia. The prayers were attended by PTI leaders Asad Umar, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Shahbaz Gill, Hammad Azhar and others.
Sharif was mysteriously shot dead by the Kenyan police Sunday night in a “mistaken identity” case while he was travelling to Nairobi.