Mohammad Saad on Tuesday.
All the police officers in the city have been tasked to organise events on the day and ahead to pay tributes to the martyred cops.In terms of casualties of the police force in the last decade, Peshawar tops the list among the 25 districts of the troubled province.The city is surrounded by tribal areas from three sides where militants have hideouts. Peshawar is followed by Swat, once a stronghold of militants where military operation had to be launched in 2009, and Bannu district.
Those killed in the provincial capital include the most decorated cops in the history of the province and even the country. Abid Ali was the first one who was killed in November 2006 when armed men opened fire on his car on Kohat Road near Matani.
A couple of months later, the then Capital City Police Officer Malik Mohammad Saad was killed on January 27, 2007 in a suicide attack near Qissa Khwani in Peshawar. A deputy superintendent of police (DSP), Khan Raziq, and many policemen and civilians were among those killed along with Malik Saad. Several police officers were also wounded in the attack.
Safwat Ghayur, who was leading a series of actions against the militants in Peshawar and Darra Adamkhel as commandant Frontier Constabulary, was targeted by a suicide bomber on August 4, 2010, when he left the FC headquarters in Peshawar Cantonment without any security.
Apart from the three senior most officers, two SPs of the rural circle, Kalam Khan and Khurshid Khan and SP Investigation Hilal Haider were also killed in Peshawar. Khurshid Khan was killed in a militant attack on a post in Matani while Kalam Khan and Hilal Haider were killed in suicide attacks in Pishtakhara and Qissa Khwani, respectively, in 2012.
The other senior officials who were killed during the period include district police officer Dir Lower Khurshid Khan and DPO Bannu Iqbal Marwat.
The number of the martyred junior officials and jawans is too high. Some of them are yet to get the compensation package and other benefits that were promised by the government in recognition of their sacrifices.