Ex-IGP Salahuddin Mahsud retires from service

PESHAWAR: A former inspector general of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and grade-22 officer of the Police Service of Pakistan Salahuddin Khan Mahsud retired from service after attaining the age of superannuation.

He served twice as IGP of KP and Commandant Frontier Constabulary. Besides, he remained IGP Azad Kashmir Police and also served as Commandant National Police Academy Islamabad. Salahuddin belonged to the 17th Common Training Programme of the PSP who started service as ASP on 18 November 1989.

In March 2017, Mahsud took over the command of the KP Police only a couple of weeks after he was promoted to grade-21, becoming one of the youngest police chiefs of the country at the age of 52.

He remained the police chief of the province until all the provincial police heads were transferred just before the general election on July 25, 2018 to hold free and fair polls. He was reappointed IGP of KP after the polls and was later posted IGP AJK Police.

Salahuddin was replaced as IGP KP when he insisted on having a police system in the merged districts similar to the one in Peshawar, Lahore, or any settled area. Mahsud during his 35-year career headed the Special Branch and the Counter-Terrorism Department of the KP Police as additional inspector general.

He remained the district and divisional head of the police in different regions of the KP before he left for an assignment abroad and later returned to Pakistan and served in key positions in the Intelligence Bureau and police force.