By The South Asia Times

ISLAMABAD: The mother of Arshad Sharif, a prominent Pakistani journalist, who killed by Kenya police last month, has approached the Supreme Court of Pakistan and requested for immediate justice.

Arshad’s mother, who rejected the government's three-member commission, requested the Chief Justice of Pakistan via a letter to form a high-powered commission of senior judges of the Supreme Court to investigate the murder of her son, according to Dawn. 

Sharif was shot dead in Kenya by the local police on the night of October 23.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was initially announced to form a high-powered judicial commission and he will request the Islamabad High Court to lead it but later government stepped back from that announcement and formed a commission including a retired judge and two government officials. 

However, Sharif’s mother rejected the commission and alleged that “the real reasons of the case are being concealed” and must be brought to light.

She argued that this was evident for three reasons:

• The Kenyan police changing its stance on the death “three to four times”.
• Federal ministers airing “different fabricated stories” regarding the death even before the investigation team went to Kenya.
• Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif initially announcing that the Islamabad High Court would be requested to appoint a high-power judicial commission only to then form a commission comprising a retired judge and two government officials, thus indicating the government’s “malafide intentions”, according to Dawn.

She also alleged that the government had “pressured and compelled” the UAE government to expel Sharif.

Alvi requested the CJP to protect the murder case from becoming controversial, to provide justice to the deceased and to appoint a high-powered judicial commission “so that the feeling of insecurity amongst the family members … along with the journalist community is taken care of”.

She said that the judicial commission should comprise senior Supreme Court judges to “determine the real motive and identify criminals behind this heinous crime”.

“Only knowing the real motive and criminals and bringing them to justice would end the agony of martyr Arshad Sharif’s family and his journalist fraternity,” Dawn citing the letter to the chief justice stated.

Alvi said this would be her “first and last” letter requesting justice and hoped that it would receive due attention because of the “gravity of the case”.