Arshad Sharif tortured before being shot in head, lunge, autopsy reveals

ISLAMABAD: The post-mortem reports of Arshad Sharif revealed that Arshad Sharif’s killing was not an incident of “mistaken identity” rather he was tortured for almost three hours before being shot in the head and right lung from a point-blank range.

According to Dunya TV report, quoting the autopsy reports, senior anchorperson Arshad Sharif was not fired upon in the moving car, rather he was forced down off the car, tortured for almost three hours. His three fingernails were removed while his two fingers were also broken during the course of torture”, the report informed. It said that there were also severe torture marks on the writs of Arshad Sharif.

The TV report said the autopsy revealed that Arshad Sharif was forced on bended knees on road before being shot in the head from the rear and in the right lunge from the front side from a point-blank range.

The report said that forensic and angle of the gunshots fired on the car clearly pinpointed that the car had stopped.

Later, he was taken back to the car seat to portray the shooting had taken place in the car, the TV channel said.

The report said all the reports of Arshad Sharif’s post-mortem had come except for one. The report of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) confirmed that the post-mortem of Arshad Sharif was carried out in Kenya too. The mark of post-mortem in Kenya was present on the body of Arshad Sharif. It may take one more week for the last report to come.

The reports also said that samples from Arshad Sharif’s body had been sent for a forensic test.

 

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