Additional IGP Mian Mohammad Asif retires

PESHAWAR: Additional Inspector General of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police, Mian Mohammad Asif retired from service on Friday.

His departure meant the province was left with only one Additional IGP even though it has five sanctioned positions in grade-21. The only Additional IGP in grade-21 serving in KP is Syed Akhtar Ali Shah, who had reported to the province only last week. Other four Additional IGPs are currently in grade-20 though some of them are due for promotion for long.

The senior most Additional IGP Mian Mohammad Asif retired after 32 years service. He spent the last years of his service in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Inspector General of Police Nasir Khan Durrani arranged a farewell party in his honour at the Police Club, Peshawar. It was attended by Commandant Frontier Constabulary Captain (R) Liaqat Ali Khan, Additional IGP and Commandant Elite Force Syed Akhtar Ali Shah, Additional IGP Special Branch Salahuddin Mehsud, DIG FIA Peshawar Syed Basharat Hussain, CCPO Mohammad Tahir, all DIGs Ranges, DIGs of Headquarters, Finance, Enquiry and Inspection, AIG Establishment and other high-ranking police officers. 

Paying tributes to the retiring officer, IGP Nasir Khan Durrani said that he found Mian Muhammad Asif a professional, dedicated and committed cop. He remarked that Mian Asif was a perfectionist and put wholeheartedly his best in all assignments entrusted to him. He said it was very difficult and painful to say goodbye to a colleague who served together with him for a long time in Punjab and in KP.

Mian Muhammad Asif was born in Sialkot on December 3, 1956 and joined the police service as ASP on October 18, 1984.