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Qaid khaano'n mai kabhi Yousuf bhi laye jatay hain!

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Kenya: UN Expert Urges Full Accountability For Pakistani Journalist’s Killing After Landmark Ruling

— 25 September 2024 | United Nations 🇺🇳

Mr. Arshad Sharif, Journalist

Geneva — A UN expert said today Kenyan and Pakistani authorities must step up efforts to fully investigate the killing of Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif in Kenya and prosecute those responsible, in line with a landmark ruling by a Kenyan High Court Judge S. N. Mutuku .

“It is now almost two years since Arshad Sharif’s death and several months since the Kenyan High Court delivered a historic judgment ruling his killing “unlawful”, “arbitrary” and “disproportionate”. “None of the police officers linked to the shooting has been arrested and no charges have been filed by prosecutors in Kenya yet”, said Irene Khan, the Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression.

“Despite the Kenyan High Court’s ruling, I am deeply concerned that neither the Kenyan authorities nor the Pakistani government have stepped up their efforts to fully investigate the case”, the Special Rapporteur said.

Arshad Sharif fled the country in August after cases were filed against him for an interview of an opposition politician. AP Photo

Sharif was killed by Kenyan law enforcement at a roadblock in Nairobi in October 2022, in an incident described by Kenyan security officials as a case of mistaken identity. On 8 July 2024, following a civil suit brought by Sharif’s family, the High Court of Kenya in Kajiado ruled that the use of lethal force in Sharif’s death was “unlawful and unconstitutional” and required the Kenyan State to pay 10 million shillings ($77,500) in compensation to Sharif’s family.

“The High Court judgment is an important victory, but its real impact will only be felt if the two governments bring the perpetrators of Sharif’s killing to justice”, Khan said.

Arshad Sharif's Murder 'Well-Planned' and 'Clearly Choreographed': Kenya Human Rights Commission! This Photo of Kenya Human Rights Commission Senior Programme Advisor Martin Mavenjina. — Photo: Screenshot

A State-sponsored Pakistani special fact-finding team concluded in December 2022 that Sharif’s death resulted from a planned and targeted assassination by transnational actors. Sharif had previously fled Pakistan to avoid arrest on charges of maligning Pakistan’s national institutions and because of threats to his life. In October 2023, UN experts wrote to Kenyan and Pakistani authorities demanding full investigations into the killing and the charges that led to Arshad’s exile.

Arshad Sharif was killed by two shots fired at close range. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for independent UN probe into Pakistani journalist’s murder in Kenya

“Justice for Mr Sharif and his family will not be done until the circumstances behind this murder are fully clarified, including whether it was a transnational crime, and all responsible actors are identified, prosecuted and punished in Kenya and Pakistan,” Khan said.

In February 2023, a Pakistani Joint Investigative Team established by Pakistan’s Supreme Court reported to State officials that Kenyan authorities had denied them access to evidence and the crime scene, effectively halting their investigation.

Nearly two years after his killing near Nairobi, a Kenyan court found police had acted unlawfully in the October 2022 shooting of Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif. Credit: Twitter

“I urge the Kenyan and Pakistani governments to muster the political will to ensure full accountability and bring to justice all those responsible for Arshad Sharif’s murder, so that this case can become a landmark reference in the fight against impunity for the killing of journalists,” Khan said.

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Who is Javeria Siddique? Biography, Husband, Age, Marriage & More

So you must want to know who is Jawaria Siddique. A few months ago, a journalist, Arshad Sharif, was brutally murdered in Kenya. Jawaria Siddiq is the wife of this journalist, who is becoming quite viral on social media these days. They are trying to vilify her through a false campaign. Some social media users have tried to harm Jawaria Siddique, who is a journalist by profession, by making personal attacks. And a large number of Pakistani Twitter users came out in support of the slain journalist’s wife and made #StayStrongJaveriaBhabhi read more

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Arshad Sharif himself notes; The State Department's written report was submitted to the Supreme Court

Arshad Sharif himself notes; The State Department’s written report was submitted to the Supreme Court

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs submitted a written report to the Supreme Court regarding the murder of journalist Arshad Sharif. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has submitted a written report to the Supreme Court in the murder case of Arshad Sharif. The written report states that consideration is being given to sending a special representative to Kenya and the UAE, who will handle the…

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With compliments from, The Directorate General Public Relations,

Government of the Punjab, Lahore Ph. 99201390.

No.1077

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Matter of Health Relates to Human Life, Negligence Cannot be Tolerated: CM Maryam Nawaz Sharif

Lahore, 12 October 2024:

“I want to improve every hospital in Punjab,” said Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz Sharif while inaugurating a new emergency block at Indus Hospital in Jubilee Town. She added,”We will improve healthcare system by using the system and experiences of Indus Hospital.” She sought a comprehensive plan to improve government hospitals with the collaboration of industrial trusts. She agreed to take joint measures for the heart surgery of young children, and noted,”We will collaborate with Indus Hospital for heart and bone marrow transplant.”

Madam Chief Minister visited various departments of the Hospital and inspected resuscitation, paeds, CT scan, nursing station, information desk and family medicine centers. She spoke to the children under treatment in the emergency ward, expressed compassion and prayed for their speedy recovery. She interacted with other under-treatment patients, their attendants and doctors to inquire them about various treatment facilities available there. She also observed the treatment procedure and paperless dashboard system of Indus Hospital.

Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif said,”We are working day in and day out with the intention of service and the fear of God.” She added,”A chair is a burden of responsibilities, a good decision can improve millions of lives.” She highlighted,”Air Ambulance Service is achieving significant success in saving precious human lives every day.”

Madam Chief Minister said,”Patients come from all over Pakistan for treatment in Punjab.” She underscored,”Up to 90% free medicines are being provided in hospitals of Punjab.”

Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif took notice of non-action by the police officers concerned on a woman's complaint against the police officials on duty in Indus Hospital. She summoned the DIG Investigation on the spot, directed him to resolve the complaint immediately and submit a report. She also directed the authorities concerned to ensure the construction of ramps in buildings to facilitate special persons.

Earlier Madam Chief Minister was briefed in detail about the Indus Hospital. She was also apprised,”07 million patients have benefited from free and quality treatment under Recep Tayyip Erdogan Trust.”

Minister for Information & Culture Azma Zahid Bukhari, MPA Sania Ashiq, Chief Secretary Zahid Akhtar Zaman, Secretary Health and other relevant officers accompanied Madam Chief Minister. Indus Regional Board Chairman Mian Muhammad Ahsan, Executive Directors Azizul Rehman, Ahsan Tariq, Manager Coordination Bilal Ahmed, Directors Javed Arshad Bhatti, SM Parvez, Hasan Qureshi, CEO Dr. Tasman and COO Dr. Shafiq were also present.

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Video: Vehicle Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif was in when he was shot dead

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Olympic javelin gold medalist Arshad. Nadeem received a total of 250 million rupees ($897,000) on Tuesday as Pakistan continued to celebrate his record-breaking throw at the Paris Games.

Pakistan's prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, announced 150 million rupees ($538,000) for Nadeem at a special ceremony to honor the star athlete in Islamabad. Sharif's announcement came hours after Punjab's chief minister Mariam Nawaz visited Nadeem's house in a village in the Mian Channu district and presented him with a check for 100 million rupees ($359,000).

Nawaz also handed him the keys to a new car which has a special registration number of "PAK 92.97" to commemorate Nadeem's throw of 92.97 meters at Paris, which was an Olympic record. Nadeem's coach Salman Iqbal Butt was also given 5 million rupees ($18,000).

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Why Arshad Nadeem’s Olympic Gold Medal for Pakistan Is So Significant

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Why Arshad Nadeem’s Olympic Gold Medal for Pakistan Is So Significant

Javelin thrower Arshad Nadeem of Pakistan made history at the Paris Summer Olympics on Thursday, bagging his home nation its first ever Olympic track and field win. Nadeem will bring home the first gold medal the South Asian country has seen in 40 years.  

The 27-year-old athlete, hailing from Mian Channu, in Pakistan’s Punjab province, shattered an Olympic record when he launched a throw of 92.97 m on his second attempt in the men’s javelin final. Nadeem bested the previous record of 90.57 m, registered by Andreas Thorkildsen of Norway at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. 

“Our brother has won the gold medal and I’ve lost my voice because I’ve been celebrating all night,” his brother Shahid Nadeem told CNN on Friday, as celebrations continued into the night across Pakistan. Nadeem is the third of eight siblings born to Muhammad Ashraf, a retired construction worker, and Raziah Parveen. 

“When he gets home we will celebrate him in such a way that the world will never forget! We are simple people and will celebrate with kheer (rice pudding) and whatever Allah gives us, we are happy!” Shahid said.

Nadeem arrived in Paris as a silver medalist, after he became the first ever Pakistani athlete to claim a medal at the World Athletics Champions in 2023. In Thursday’s final, he beat out defending champion Neeraj Chopra of India, 26, who secured a silver medal in the final. Chopra recorded a best of 89.45 m alongside five other fouled attempts. Grenada’s two-time world champion Anderson Peters, 26, won bronze with a 88.54 m throw. 

Despite fierce competition, Nadeem and Chopra’s friendship warmed hearts as the athletes—hailing from nations with a history of conflict since the Partition of India in 1947—defy lingering tensions. The pair were seen embracing each other after claiming their medals. According to local media, Nadeem and Chopra’s mothers have each said their son’s competitor is like their own child. 

Pakistan’s sporting excellence is often concentrated in cricket, but the nation now has 11 Olympic medals across men’s hockey, men’s wrestling, and men’s boxing. The nation sent a contingent of seven athletes to Paris this year. 

Nadeem’s win breaks Pakistan’s 32-year Olympics dry spell since the men’s hockey team claimed the nation’s last medal, winning bronze at the Barcelona games in 1992. But it has been four decades since Pakistan left the games with a gold medal. The men’s hockey team won first place in Los Angeles in 1984, and prior to that the team also won gold in 1960 and 1968.  

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif congratulated Nadeem on his historic win with a post on X (formerly Twitter). “You’ve made the whole nation proud young man,” he wrote.

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Why Arshad Nadeem’s Olympic Gold Medal for Pakistan Is So Significant

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Why Arshad Nadeem’s Olympic Gold Medal for Pakistan Is So Significant

Javelin thrower Arshad Nadeem of Pakistan made history at the Paris Summer Olympics on Thursday, bagging his home nation its first ever Olympic track and field win. Nadeem will bring home the first gold medal the South Asian country has seen in 40 years.  

The 27-year-old athlete, hailing from Mian Channu, in Pakistan’s Punjab province, shattered an Olympic record when he launched a throw of 92.97 m on his second attempt in the men’s javelin final. Nadeem bested the previous record of 90.57 m, registered by Andreas Thorkildsen of Norway at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. 

“Our brother has won the gold medal and I’ve lost my voice because I’ve been celebrating all night,” his brother Shahid Nadeem told CNN on Friday, as celebrations continued into the night across Pakistan. Nadeem is the third of eight siblings born to Muhammad Ashraf, a retired construction worker, and Raziah Parveen. 

“When he gets home we will celebrate him in such a way that the world will never forget! We are simple people and will celebrate with kheer (rice pudding) and whatever Allah gives us, we are happy!” Shahid said.

Nadeem arrived in Paris as a silver medalist, after he became the first ever Pakistani athlete to claim a medal at the World Athletics Champions in 2023. In Thursday’s final, he beat out defending champion Neeraj Chopra of India, 26, who secured a silver medal in the final. Chopra recorded a best of 89.45 m alongside five other fouled attempts. Grenada’s two-time world champion Anderson Peters, 26, won bronze with a 88.54 m throw. 

Despite fierce competition, Nadeem and Chopra’s friendship warmed hearts as the athletes—hailing from nations with a history of conflict since the Partition of India in 1947—defy lingering tensions. The pair were seen embracing each other after claiming their medals. According to local media, Nadeem and Chopra’s mothers have each said their son’s competitor is like their own child. 

Pakistan’s sporting excellence is often concentrated in cricket, but the nation now has 11 Olympic medals across men’s hockey, men’s wrestling, and men’s boxing. The nation sent a contingent of seven athletes to Paris this year. 

Nadeem’s win breaks Pakistan’s 32-year Olympics dry spell since the men’s hockey team claimed the nation’s last medal, winning bronze at the Barcelona games in 1992. But it has been four decades since Pakistan left the games with a gold medal. The men’s hockey team won first place in Los Angeles in 1984, and prior to that the team also won gold in 1960 and 1968.  

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif congratulated Nadeem on his historic win with a post on X (formerly Twitter). “You’ve made the whole nation proud young man,” he wrote.

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Slain journalist Arshad Sharif’s family to be awarded Rs21.7m as compensation

Kenya’s High Court has ordered its government to compensate the family of Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif with 10 million Kenyan Shillings (Rs21.7 million) after ruling that his shooting by police in Kajiado County in 2022 was “arbitrary and unconstitutional.” According to Kenyan news agency NTV, Justice Stella Mutuku of the Kenyan court declared that Sharif’s rights to life, equality before…

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Payout for widow of Pakistani journalist killed by Kenyan police

Arshad Sharif was an outspoken TV anchor who fled Pakistan after receiving death threats. from BBC News https://ift.tt/NdDpFRq via IFTTT

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Shocking Opposition Victory Throws Pakistan Into Chaos

The Party of Imran Khan, Illegally Jailed Former Prime Minister, Took The Most Seats, Humiliating the Country’s Corrupt $$$ Military Rulers Who Rigged the Elections heavily and Creating a Political Crisis.

— By Christina Goldbaum | Reporting From Islamabad, Pakistan | February 10, 2024 | The New York Times

Supporters of Imran Khan’s political party rallied on Saturday in Peshawar, Pakistan, asking for the release of the complete results of the parliamentary election. Credit...Arshad Arbab/EPA, via Shutterstock

The party of the imprisoned former prime minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, won the most seats in parliamentary elections this week, delivering a strong rebuke to the country’s powerful generals and throwing the political system into chaos.

While military leaders had hoped the election would put an end to the political turmoil that has consumed the country since Mr. Khan’s ouster in 2022, it has instead plunged it into an even deeper crisis, analysts said.

Never before in the country’s history has a politician seen such success in an election without the backing of the generals — much less after facing their iron fist.

In voting on Thursday, candidates from Mr. Khan’s party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, or P.T.I., appeared to win about 97 seats in the National Assembly, the lower house of Parliament, the country’s election commission reported on Saturday. The military’s preferred party, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, or P.M.L.N., led by a three-time former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, won at least 73 seats, the commission said. Only seven seats were left unaccounted for — not enough to change the outcome as reported by the commission.

While candidates aligned with Mr. Khan were set to be the largest group in Parliament, they still fell short of a simple majority — setting off a race between the parties of Mr. Khan and Mr. Sharif to win over other lawmakers and establish a coalition government.

Leaders of Mr. Khan’s party also said they planned court challenges in dozens of races that they believe were rigged by the military, and said they would urge their followers to hold peaceful protests if the remaining results were not released by Sunday.

The success of Mr. Khan’s party was a head-spinning upset in an election that the military thought would be an easy victory for Mr. Sharif. Ahead of last week’s election, Pakistan’s powerful generals had jailed Mr. Khan, arrested candidates allied with him and intimidated his supporters to clear his party from the playing field — or so they thought. Instead, the election results confirmed that Mr. Khan remains a formidable force in Pakistani politics, despite his ouster and subsequent imprisonment.

On Friday evening, Mr. Khan’s party released a victory speech using a computer-generated voice to simulate that of Mr. Khan, who has been jailed since August. “I congratulate you all for your election 2024 victory. I had full confidence that you would all come out to vote,” the A.I.-generated voice said. “Your massive turnout has stunned everybody.”

The success of Mr. Khan’s party upended the decades-old political playbook governing Pakistan, a nuclear-armed nation of 240 million. Throughout those years, the military has wielded ultimate authority, guiding its politics behind a veil of secrecy, and civilian leaders have typically risen to power only with its support — or been driven from office by its heavy hand.

The vote also showed that Mr. Khan’s strategy of preaching reform and railing against the military has resonated deeply with Pakistanis — particularly young people — who are disillusioned with the political system. It also proved that his loyal base of supporters was seemingly immune to the military’s old tactics for demoralizing voters, including arresting supporters and issuing long prison sentences to their political leaders days before the vote.

Mr. Khan, a former cricket star turned populist politician, was sentenced to a total of 34 years in prison after being convicted in four separate cases on charges that included leaking state secrets and unlawful marriage, and that he has called politically motivated.

Three of those verdicts were issued just days before the vote — an old tactic used by the military, analysts say. But early estimates show that around 48 percent of the voters turned out for the election, according to the Free and Fair Election Network, an organization of civil society groups. Voter turnout in the country’s past two elections was about 50 percent, the organization said.

The results were “both an anti-establishment vote and also a vote against the status quo, against the two other major political parties that have been ruling the country and their dynastic politics,” Zahid Hussain, an analyst based in Islamabad, said, referring to the military as the establishment.

Without a simple majority, most analysts believe it will be difficult for Mr. Khan’s party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, or P.T.I., to form a government. Some P.T.I. leaders have also suggested that the party would rather remain in the opposition than lead a weakened coalition government with Mr. Khan still behind bars.

Despite lagging behind in the polls, on Friday Mr. Sharif gave a victory speech in front of a crowd of supporters of his party, P.M.L.N. He also invited other parties to join his in forming a coalition government, suggesting that such a coalition would not include P.T.I.

“We are inviting everyone today to rebuild this injured Pakistan and sit with us,” he said in a speech in Lahore, the capital of Punjab Province.

But any coalition Mr. Sharif manages to form will face serious political challenges. The coalition government led by P.M.L.N. after Mr. Khan’s ouster was deeply unpopular and widely criticized for failing to address an economic crisis that has battered the country and sent inflation to record highs.

The incoming government is also likely to face a serious legitimacy crisis. The election on Thursday has also been criticized by some as one of the least credible in the country’s history, and delays in releasing the election results have led to widespread allegations that the military tampered with the vote count to tip the scales back in P.M.L.N.’s favor.

With P.T.I. promising bruising and lengthy court battles over the results, it could be some time before any party manages to form a government.

“We will pursue all legal options, and we will pursue all constitutional options,” said the P.T.I. leader, Raoof Hasan.

— Zia ur-Rehman contributed reporting.

— Christina Goldbaum is the Afghanistan and Pakistan bureau chief for The Times. More about Christina Goldbaum

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Missing car in Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif shooting found; it’s a Mercedes ML350, not Land Cruiser V8