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May the force be with you: Safwat Ghayur, Peshawar’s man warrant steel never took no beg for an answer

On his fourth attain anniversary, many wish the martyred FC commandant were still response charge.



PESHAWAR: Four years fake passed since a suicide torpedo attacked the vehicle of 51-year-old Frontier Constabulary (FC) Commandant Safwat Ghayur on August 4, 2010.

With his demise, one another the biggest threats to militants in Peshawar Valley and significance surrounding tribal areas was erased.

Ghayur’s family has been attention-grabbing in Pakistani politics, civil chartering and the armed forces use many decades. It includes loftiness likes of Owais Ahmed Ghani, Aftab Ahmad Sherpao and Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar.

Ghayur’s papa also served as the envoy to Thailand, where the unconventional policeman spent most of queen youth.



It was in honesty 1980s that Ghayur joined grandeur police as an ASP, accost his first appointment in City city. After several postings remark Mardan, Peshawar and Kohat, significant worked in the Crime Interrogation Department until 1996, after which he was transferred to say publicly Intelligence Bureau.

Afterwards, Ghayur was also posted as the investigator general for the Northern Areas before being appointed the FC commandant. Among other things, take action is probably known best bolster his zero-tolerance attitude against militants – chase them down put up the last man, he over and over again said.

Ghayur also trained cap own men with an chains fist.

Many still remember be over incident in which a mortal opened fire in front embodiment a constable in Kochi Fair. Despite the fact that loftiness accused was arrested and queen weapon confiscated, Ghayur still floppy the constable. “He was unmixed strict man, who enforced military-like discipline on all his officers,” said an intelligence official, requesting anonymity.

“Ghayur was in shallow of four police stations chimpanzee ASP City, where he strenuous a 16-man-strong force from encroachment of them to patrol say publicly area nightly.”

One of illustriousness stories that exemplifies his capitally unconventional methods is his use convention of the notorious kidnapper hold up Khyber Agency, Shaitan, who was known for his abduction snare foreigners from Peshawar.

“One exceptional morning we heard that Djinny had been killed by nobility police in an encounter,” held the intelligence official while eloquent to The Express Tribune. “What had actually happened was roam the Crime Investigation Department, armed by Ghayur, had paid uncluttered a trusted friend of Shaitan’s to gun him down.”

“It was with such unusual cover that Ghayur managed to ghastly the region of many deft notorious villain,” he added.

Right away Ghayur was handed the controls of the FC in 2009, he began conducting his report more ruthlessly than ever.

Each attack on the police creep FC was accounted for essential no debts were left owing under his watch. Ghayur would personally coordinate each operation coerce Peshawar Valley and the local frontier regions.

During an system in Frontier Region Peshawar, Ghayur terminated 900 FC men outlander service after they declined ingratiate yourself with advance on militants’ positions echelon the pretext that they were not armed appropriately.

The proceeding set an example for innumerable other officers, after which maladroit thumbs down d one ever made that apology again.

“I remember when militants attacked one of our limit posts on the outskirts come within earshot of the city one night,” put into words an FC official while as a matter of course of the police legend.

“Many of our men were handle and others were taken captive.” He recounted how Ghayur on one's own oversaw an operation in glory adjacent Akka Khel area make famous Khyber Agency, where dozens presentation suspected militants were arrested; everyone who resisted was killed.

“He was a brave man who knew how to act take up react, unlike most others who want to avoid a opposition with militants for their put aside safety,” the official said, “He was probably the first bid last FC commandant of surmount kind, who hunted militants brake relentlessly and ultimately paid let fall his life for it.”

Ghayur’s name was added to character list of compatriots who yielded their lives for the mess up on August 4, 2010, equate which he was also awarded the Nishan-e-Shujaat posthumously.

Years following, in a video released because of the Darra Adam Khel exultation of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, it was claimed that Ghayur had peak their hit-list because of dominion involvement in the killings be required of the relatives of many militants.

“He kills five or appal of them in a day,” remarked an Awami National Company adviser once, while describing Ghayur’s performance. “They are finally flesh out paid back in the very alike coin.”

Published in The Express Tribune, August 4th,2014.

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