Family and team revive Arshad Sharif’s YouTube channel

ISLAMABAD — The YouTube channel of slain Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif has been revived by his family, with support from his longtime colleague and former executive producer Adeel Raja. The channel, Arshad Sharif Official, has around 449,000 subscribers and has remained largely inactive since Sharif’s murder in 2022.

Appearing in a video on the channel, Raja said the decision to revive it followed repeated requests from Sharif’s son, Ali Arshad Sharif, and other family members who inherited the channel after his death. He said the family wanted to keep Sharif’s digital presence alive as a space to remember his life and work.
Raja said that although discussions about continuing the channel began about three years ago, practical and ethical concerns delayed the decision. He said neither he nor other members of Sharif’s former team wanted to appear as replacements or to project personal ambition through the channel.

He said the revived channel would not function as a news outlet. Instead, it would focus on Sharif’s personality, memories from his professional life, and lesser-known aspects of his journey as a journalist. Raja said he and other former colleagues would appear occasionally, once or twice a week, while Sharif’s sons would manage the channel.
Raja also referred to other members of Sharif’s former production team, including Ali Usman, who produced and edited many of Sharif’s programs. He noted that he himself was dismissed from ARY News after Sharif’s departure and later launched his own YouTube channel.

He said the revived series aims to share behind-the-scenes stories about how Sharif worked, the decisions he made, and the principles that guided his journalism. Raja said the initiative would continue weekly as long as the family wished to maintain it.
Source: JP