PESHAWAR: A couple from the Sarki Gate area of Peshawar has appealed to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governor and senior police officials to help recover their 18-year-old son, who has been missing since June 8.
Afsar Khan, accompanied by his wife, visited the Peshawar Press Club on Thursday to share their ordeal with journalists and seek assistance in tracing their son, Musa Khan.
Afsar Khan said his son worked as an apprentice at a motorcycle repair shop. When Musa failed to return home by 9pm on June 8, he went to the workshop, where he was told that the young man had closed the shop and left for home.
He said he had contacted Shah Qabool Police Station the following day and lodged a report regarding his son’s disappearance. However, more than four months had passed, and the family was still awaiting information about his whereabouts.
The father alleged that, instead of taking effective measures to trace his missing son, the police had delayed the investigation, leaving the family in distress and uncertainty.
“I am tired of repeatedly visiting Shah Qabool Police Station. The police staff tell me, “You look for him, and we are also looking for him,” he said.
Afsar Khan said he had travelled to Lahore, Rawalpindi and Islamabad in search of his son but had been unable to find any trace of him. He added that he had exhausted his savings, which he had set aside for his daughter’s wedding, in his desperate efforts to locate his missing son.
His wife said the family lived in a rented house and that her husband worked as a watchman, earning barely enough to meet their daily expenses. Musa, she said, had been the family’s sole breadwinner.
She said the family had been facing severe financial hardship since his disappearance, adding that they were now struggling to arrange even basic necessities.
The mother said Musa had never spent a night away from home and would normally remain at the motorcycle repair shop from morning until night. She added that the family had no enmity with anyone.
Published in Dawn, October 23rd, 2026
