Kenyan National Police Service and Pakistani authorities have this afternoon met to review and iron out differences that emerged as a result of conflicting post-mortem reports by Kenyan and Pakistani doctors.
Kenya Police mentioned on October 31, 2022 that the two countries had met, “following the death incident of a Pakistani journalist,” and the subsequent medical reports that were prepared by both Kenyan and Pakistani doctors.
The delegation from Pakistan to Kenya was led by the High Commissioner to Kenya H.E Saqlain Syedah who paid a courtesy call to Ag. IG Noor Gabow at his office.
Pakistani pathologists, on October 30, 2022 sharply differed with Kenyan counterparts’ report over the death of Journalist Arshad Sharif, who was killed in Kajiado last week.
The pathologists from the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) poked holes into Kenyan doctors’ findings, claiming that local medics left out a crucial piece of evidence that should have formed part of the report.
Pakistani pathologists discovered found a bullet lodged in his chest, a key piece of evidence that was left out in Kenyan doctors’ pathology report.
Pakistani pathology report reveals that “Mr Sharif, 50, died 10 to 30 minutes after he was shot in the brain and lung.”
The report also indicated that all the injuries were ante-mortem, meaning that they are injuries that occurred before the death of the Pakistani Journalist Arshad Sharif.
The technical report that was compiled three days after the death of Arshad further explained that such ante-mortem injuries could lead to an ordinary cause of death.
“The board is of the opinion that the deceased died due to firearm injuries that caused damage to the brain and the right lung,” the report read.
It is still not clear why Kenyan pathologists left out that crucial piece of evidence in their report or whether they were not able to find the bullet during post-mortem exercise that was conducted in the country.
The prominent Pakistani investigative journalist had been very critical of his country’s powerful military.
The 50-year-old journalist was killed in Kenya nearly two months after he fled the country in August to avoid arrest after he was slapped with multiple cases.
Arshad was accused of engaging in sedition during an interview with Shahbaz Gill – a close aide of former prime minister Imran Khan – during which Gill made comments deemed offensive to the military.
The United States has expressed its concern over press freedoms in Pakistan after Pakistani authorities in August briefly blocked media organization that was deem to sympathetic to former PM Khan.
Source: kENYANS.CO.KE