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PESHAWAR For the first time in Peshawar, a police officer was found beheaded here on Thursday, who along with his friend had been kidnapped by suspected militants from the Kohat Road on March 29.
A police official said the body of sub-inspector Mohammad Tariq Khan was found at a dry drain near the Frontier Road in the Mattani police area. He said it seemed that Mr Tariq had been killed somewhere else and his body brought to the deserted place at night.
The slain police officer, he said, belonged to the Adezai area in the suburbs of Peshawar and was in-charge of the Siphon police post. He was going to his office in a car along with a friend, Chaman Gul, who is a schoolteacher, when they were kidnapped. The fate of Mr Gul is not known.
Following autopsy, the body of the policeman was shifted to Malak Saad Khan Police Lines where his funeral prayer was offered. NWFP Inspector General of Police Malik Naveed, Capital City Police Officer Safwath Ghayur and other officials attended the funeral prayer.
It is the fourth incident that a beheaded body has been found in Peshawar this year. Earlier, the beheaded body of a 'faith healer', Pir Rafiullah, was found on Jan 18.
The bodies of Kala Khan and another person, both killed on the charge of spying, were found in March.
Meanwhile, police have failed to get any clue to recover a lawyer, Bashir Ahmed, who was kidnapped on March 29 from the Khushal Pakistan Road in the Sarband police area while he was going to the district courts in a car.
