{"id":17730,"date":"2025-11-28T18:11:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T13:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=17730"},"modified":"2025-11-28T18:11:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T13:11:25","slug":"federal-constitutional-court-sets-december-3-hearing-in-arshad-sharif-murder-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=17730","title":{"rendered":"Federal Constitutional Court Sets December 3 Hearing in Arshad Sharif Murder Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1737\" data-end=\"2019\"><strong>Islamabad: The Federal Constitutional Court has officially scheduled the hearing of the high-profile Arshad Sharif murder case for December 3. A two-member bench, comprising Justice Aamir Farooq and Justice Rozi Khan, has been constituted to take up the proceedings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2021\" data-end=\"2387\">Originally, the Supreme Court had taken suo motu notice of the journalist\u2019s killing. However, following the 27th Constitutional Amendment, the jurisdiction over such suo motu cases has been transferred from the Supreme Court to the newly established Federal Constitutional Court. As a result, this case now falls entirely under the constitutional court\u2019s domain.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2389\" data-end=\"2696\">Arshad Sharif was tragically shot dead on October 23, 2022, on the Magadi Highway near Nairobi, Kenya. The Kenyan police initially termed the incident a case of \u201cmistaken identity,\u201d but subsequent investigations revealed significant contradictions in the statements and stance of the Kenyan authorities.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2698\" data-end=\"2980\">The slain journalist\u2019s family, media bodies, and human rights groups have long demanded a transparent and credible investigation. With the case now formally listed before the Federal Constitutional Court, expectations have risen for concrete progress in establishing accountability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Federal Constitutional Court has officially scheduled the hearing of the high-profile Arshad Sharif murder case for December 3. A two-member bench, comprising Justice Aamir Farooq and Justice Rozi Khan, has been constituted to take up the proceedings. Originally, the Supreme Court had taken suo motu notice of the journalist\u2019s killing. However, following the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[9614,9618,9288,9615,9617,9616],"class_list":["post-17730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-arshad-sharif-case","tag-december-hearing","tag-federal-constitutional-court","tag-kenya-investigation","tag-pakistani-judiciary","tag-suo-motu-cases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17732,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17730\/revisions\/17732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}