By Zahid Shah 

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan ruling party key leader Maryam Nawaz's controversial comments regarding the country’s prominent journalist Arshad Sharif's death sparks anger across Pakistan.

“Extremely insensitive and inhuman from a Political leader on a cold blooded murder of a pure Pakistani. Perhaps u hurt the complete mankind and humanity. Btr delete it,” Brig Ashfaq Hassan said 

 Maryam shared a very controversial tweet along with Arshad's mortal remains picture at airport and wrote “I don’t feel good RTing this but this is a lesson for the mankind that we must all imbibe.”

Her tweet sparked anger across the country and people strongly reacted and condemned her comments at time when the nation mourn over brutal death of Arshad Sharif.

Her latest comments came a day after when she along with her father and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif celebrated Hindu festival Holi in London and posted celebrations video on party official account on day when the nation mourning over tragic death of Arshad Sharif.

Responding to Maryam, Arshad’s wife Javeria Siddique posted her and her husband's several tweets when they had prayed for the early recovery of Maryam's mother and later expressed condolences over her death, and said “Shame on you Maryam Nawaz, fear from Allah,” Javeria wrote.

Pakistan former Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry also criticized Maryam Nawaz and condemned her comments.

“The purpose of this statement was to insult Arshad Sharif, but this statement has revealed your mentality more. You hurt not only the family but the whole nation #ShameOnYou," he tweeted.

A well-known western journalist CJ Werleman also reacted on her tweet and said “Maryam Nawaz represents the very worst of Pakistan!.”

Another prominent Pakistani journalist Imran Riaz Khan also expressed anger and said “We will remember it and your false accusations on Arshad and also the injuries you gave him.”

Sharif, 49, Sharif left Pakistan in August after an arrest warrant was issued following his interview on ARY TV with Shahbaz Gill, a close aide to former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who made comments considered offensive by the military, according to those reports and CPJ reporting.

The ARY news channel was briefly taken off the air in Pakistan in August, and on August 31, the channel said it was parting ways with Sharif, citing a breach of conduct on social media.

Meanwhile, the Kenya journalists also rejected the police statement of  Sharif killing was “mistaken identity” and said it was a “targeted killing,”

“It was target killing not mistaken identity. Everyone knows about the Kenyan police they can do whatever demand for money,” Kathy Peterson, a local journalist wrote on Twitter.

“this report by Kenya’s citizen TV channel has detailed visuals of Waqar Ahmed’s AMMODUMP shooting / firing range which Arshad visited the day he was killed and where Ahmed regularly hosted Kenyan security personnel,” Ali Mustafa, a prominent journalist tweeted.

Ali shared a report from a local Kenya TV channel “Kenya Citizen TV” where the media outlet raised several questions and said the killing was not “mistaken identity”. 

“Waqar Ahmed and Khurram Ahmed need to be investigated as two key suspects involved in the killing of Arshad Sharif - Waqar especially seems to be the key guy with a Huts and Homes resort near to where the crime happened; he also arranged for Arshad’s body to be flown in haste,” Ali said.

“Khurram Ahmed (the driver who survived) and Naqar Ahmed (who owns a resort nearby) are two Pakistani nationals based in Nairobi, seemingly at the centre of this developing story, which Kenyan police says is a case of "mistaken identity", likely a plot to kill #ArshadSharif," Ali further pointed out.