ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has decided to name roads after two police officers and a student who sacrificed their lives protecting the citizens against terrorists.

The civic agency also decided to name a road after late broadcaster Agha Nasir.

The CDA Board at a meeting decided to name a service road in F-11 sector after Agha Nasir, who died in July last year.

He was considered as one of the founders of Pakistan Television.

The CDA board also approved naming the service road (west) F-8 after Safwat Ghayur, the commandant of Frontier Constabulary (FC), who sacrificed his life in a targeted suicide attack in Peshawar in 2010 by the outlawed Taliban.

The service road H-11 (police lines road) would be named after DIG Ahmed Mobin, who was killed in a bomb blast in Lahore in February this year.

Another road in Sector D-12 would be named after Aitzaz Hassan Bangash, a schoolboy from Hangu, who sacrificed his life while preventing a suicide bomber from entering his school in 2014.

The board also approved an amendment to the CDA Employees (Service) Regulation 1992.

Published in Dawn, May 21st, 2017

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