Additional Inspector General of Police Safwat Ghayur (14 July 1959 – 4 August 2010) was a senior two-star police officer serving in the

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ps, خېبر پښتونخوا; Urdu, Hindko: خیبر پختونخوا) commonly abbreviated as KP or KPK, is one of the Administrative units of Pakistan, four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the Geography of Pakistan, ...

Province of

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as commandant of the

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. He was a respected police officer, and a leader in the country's fight against

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, he was martyred in a suicide attack by the

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Biography

Safwat Ghayur was the nephew of

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activist

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Abdur Rab Nishtar, a cousin of the former Governor of

, Owais Ahmed Ghani and a cousin of former Chief of Armed forces General Abdul Waheed Kakar. His brother-in-law, Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao, was twice the Chief Minister of the erstwhile pakhtunkhwa, as well as Interior Minister of Pakistan.. He is an ethnic

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, hailing from

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tribe in

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. Safwat Ghayur is the son of Abdul Ghayur, the Pakistani Ambassador to Thailand, where Safwat Ghayur spent his adolescence. Safwat Ghayur was an avid Badminton Player who could be frequently seen on the Badminton Courts of the

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(RBSC) playing Badminton on a daily basis with his close childhood friend, Homayoun Sadigh Esfandiary son of Mohsen Sadigh Esfandiary, the Iranian Ambassador to

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. Safwat Ghayur joined the Police Service of Pakistan in 1981(9th CTP) and worked initially as an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), at various stations of

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, and then as Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) of Peshawar. He became Deputy Commandant in the

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and later on Capital City Police Officer of

. Since December 2009, he served as

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of the

, which acts as a policing force in the semi-autonomous tribal areas of Pakistan. He had gained a reputation for being actively involved in police work, having been shot in the shoulder in 1994 in a shootout with a criminal, and was widely praised as a hero and became a respected police officer, and a leader in the fight against terrorism.

Death and legacy

Safwat Ghayur was killed by a targeted suicide bomb blast at the Frontier Constabulary Chowk, Peshawar on the evening of 4 August 2010, when he was driving away from his office without any special security protocol. A pedestrian was killed on the scene and two others later died in the hospital. Eight kilograms of explosives were used; "the severed head of the suspected bomber, who appeared to be in his teens, was found some 20 feet from the gutted vehicle of Mr Ghayur." Responsibility was claimed by

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Rehman Malik honoured him posthumously with the Hilal-e-Shujaat. His loss was yet another blow to the

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Police; following his colleagues

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and Abid Ali in keeping the tradition of self-sacrifice for the greater good of the community going.

References

External links

Mohsin-e-Peshawar — Sifwat Ghayur

A hero who died with his boots on

Watch drama on Commandant FC Safwat Ghayur Shaheed , Awam Kay Sipahi (2017)
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Biography

Death and legacy

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