Peshawar University’s journalism department to be renamed after Arshad Sharif

WEB DESK: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to rename the Journalism Department at the University of Peshawar after the late journalist Arshad Sharif.

According to Provincial Education Minister Meena Khan Afridi, the decision will be implemented on the directives of Chief Minister KP, Ali Amin Gandapur. He stated that the government had been instructed to rename the journalism department of one of the universities in Sharif’s honour.

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Afridi further said that emergency measures are being taken to execute the decision, adding that journalists have played a vital role in the restoration of true democracy in Pakistan.

Arshad Sharif was assassinated in Kenya on October 23. The Constitutional Bench headed by Justice Aminuddin overlooking the suo motu case of Arshad Sharif’s killing had granted one-month’s time to the federal government upon their request, with the hearing getting been postponed for a month.