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Pakistani government sends team to Kenya to investigate journalist's death

A file photo of slain journalist Arshad Sharif. [Picture - Arshad Sharif/Facebook]

The Government of Pakistan has dispatched a team of detectives to Nairobi to investigate the death of senior journalist Arshad Sharif, who was shot dead in what police said was a case of "mistaken identity".

Through its Interior ministry, Pakistan has named the three officers Athar Waheed, Director of Police FIA, Omar Shahid Hamid, Deputy Director-General Intelligence Bureau, and Lieutenant Colonel Saad Ahmed to be the ones to travel to Kenya to investigate shooting.

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