PESHAWAR, July 22: Chief of Bazidkhel Peace Committee Malik Asif Khan alleged on Sunday that two police officials were involved in the assassination of his brother Fahim Khan, former chief of the peace body.

Mr Khan told Dawn that he visited Paharipura police station to lodge FIR against the two police officials including sub-inspector Gul Mohammad and assistant sub-inspector Javed Akhtar, who were bodyguards of the former chief of peace committee.

Both of them had gone missing after the assassination of Fahim Khan and his three colleagues, whose dead bodies were found in a vehicle parked on Ring Road in the limits of Paharipura police station on June 27.

Police claimed that the missing policemen were recovered on July 19 in a raid on a house in Speen Khak area of Nowshera district. Two kidnappers were also killed in the raid.

Mr Khan said that they suspected that both the police officials were involved in the assassination of his brother and his friends.

He said that he went to Paharipura police station on Sunday to register FIR against the officials. However, police turned down his request to charge the officials in the murder case, he added.

“Police officials told me to move court in this connection,” he said, adding that he was left with no option but to file a writ in Peshawar High Court.

However, on Sunday evening, he said, SSP talked to him by telephone and asked him to hold a meeting with his brother’s bodyguards, who were recovered recently.

“I have many questions for both the police officials. I want to ask them as to how my brother was assassinated,” the peace committee leader said.

Officials at Paharipura police station, when contacted, said that FIR was already registered against unidentified persons in the murder case of Fahim Khan and his friends. They said that Asif Khan should move a court and charge whosoever was allegedly involved in the killing of his brother.