Body of Journalist Arshad Sharif arrives in Islamabad, Pakistan

Remains of Arshad Sharif being loaded into a van. [Picture, Javeria Siddique - Twitter]

A plane carrying the remains of Arshad Sharif, an investigative Pakistani journalist who was shot dead by Kenyan police in Magadi area, Kajiado County touched down at the Islamabad International Airport in Pakistan minutes after midnight, Tuesday, October 25.

The body was seen off at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport by a host of Pakistani diplomats, family and friends, and according to Flight Radar (a flight tracking website), the plane stopped in Doha, Qatar before proceeding on to Islamabad, Pakistan.

The wife of the late, Sharif, Javeria Siddique through Twitter, shared a short video of the coffin with the remains in an undisclosed location with the caption, "My Arshad is back but in a coffin."

The 50-year-old journalist will be buried in Islamabad on Thursday, October 27 in accordance with Islamic rites.

On Tuesday, Pakistan High Commissioner to Kenya Saqlain Syedah told journalists in Nairobi that a postmortem had been conducted on the late at the Chiromo mortuary, adding that police had confirmed that Sharif was shot dead after his driver allegedly breached a roadblock erected on the Magadi - Nairobi route.

"We have already done the postmortem, which shows that he (Arshad Sharif) was shot between his shoulder and his head. It was a mishap that happened by the Kenyan police between Kajiado and Nairobi, which they have ruled a case of mistaken identity and that they were looking for a stolen car, they said they did not see the registration number clearly," Saqlain said.

At the same time, she has called on the Kenyan government to conduct thorough investigations into the shooting to avoid any diplomatic tiff.

"My government has requested the Government of Kenya to do an intensive investigation to find out the reason behind the shooting," she said.

On Monday after the news went viral, Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, spoke with Kenyan President William Ruto about the incident.