KOHAT: Senior police officers on Saturday paid glowing tributes to former capital city police officer Malik Saad on his 17th martyrdom anniversary.

A smartly turned-out contingent of police presented a salute of honour at his tomb in Ghulam Banda area here.

DIG Kohat division Sher Akbar Khan, district police officer Farhan Khan and all the SPs were present on the occasion.

Malik Saad had embraced martyrdom along with other police officials in a suicide attack in Qissa Khawani Bazaar of Peshawar on January 27, 2007. They were guarding a Muharram procession.

The office-bears of Malik Saad Shaheed Memorial Sports Trust, his son, Malik Salim Khan, and senior police officers laid floral wreaths at his grave and offered prayers for his highest place in heaven.

The police officials eulogised his sacrifices for the sake of the country.

DIG Sher Akbar said Malik Saad would always be remembered as an honest official, who had added a feather to the long list of brave police martyrs.

FORMER MINISTER FLAYED: Daud Afridi, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf-backed candidate for KP-91, has castigated former state minister and MNA Shehryar Afridi for not being ‘able to bring a single project to the district during his nine years stint’.

Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, he claimed the people had got fed up with Mr Shehryar because after winning the elections he never came to meet his constituents.

Mr Daud alleged Mr Shehryar didn’t care about Kohat because when former senator Abbass Khan Afridi, who was state minister during the Nawaz Sharif government, approved power transformers and gas, Mr Shehryar got stay orders against the schemes, challenging he was the MNA and not him (Abbass).

He recalled that when Nawaz Sharif came to Kohat on the invitation of Abbass Afridi for inauguration of a Rs5-billion gas supply project for the people, Mr Shehryar led a mob that pelted stones at the stage of Mr Sharif.

Mr Daud advised Mr Shehryar to relinquish his practice of remaining in Islamabad after success and only showing his face when fresh elections were around.

Meanwhile, former JUI-F MPA from KP-90, Major retired Shah Dad Khan, while speaking at a corner meeting here on Saturday, also accused Shehryar Afridi and former provincial minister Ziaullah Bangash of not executing a single project in Kohat.

Published in Dawn, January 28th, 2024