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PESHAWAR: Superintendent of Martyrdom Police Tahir Khan Dawar was buried in Peshawar on Thursday night as his parents, elders and many commoners attended his last rites.
The funeral prayers of a martyr policeman were offered to the police lines in Peshawar on Thursday night.
KP Governor Shah Farman, Chief Minister Mehmood Khan, Corps Commander General Shaheen Mazhar, Minister of State of the Interior Shehryar Afridi and Chief Secretary Naveed Kamran Baloch, attended the funeral prayers.
Salahuddin Mehsud (IG KP), Shehram Tarakai and KP Ajmal Wazir government spokesman, relatives of the martyred policeman and a large number of people were also present.
The martyred Dawar SP rests in the Hayatabad cemetery.
Earlier, Afghan officials handed SP Dawar's body to a Pakistani delegation.
The body was received at the Torkham border by a tribal jirga led by Dawar's cousin Mohsin Dawar. Interior Minister Shehryar Afridi and KP Information Minister Shaukat Yousfazi were also present at the border.
Pakistani officials held talks with Afghan officials, who refused to hand over the body to him. Afghan officials wanted the body delivered to MP Mohsin Dawar or tribal representatives.
SP Tahir Dawar, reported missing from Islamabad on October 26, was found dead in Nangarhar earlier this week. His martyrdom has been confirmed by the Afghan government.
Pakistan worries about handover by "non-diplomatic procedures"
Foreign Office spokesman Dr. Faisal, shortly after the funeral, tweeted that Pakistan had expressed concern at the excessive delay in handing over the remains of SP Dawar and "the fact that the handover was linked to an insistence". on non-diplomatic procedures and avoidable pain "to the policeman's family.
Diplomatic and humanitarian standards must be respected, especially in such circumstances, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Earlier in the day, the TF confirmed that the body had been brought back to the country by an official delegation that had gone to Afghanistan.
In a press release, the Foreign Office said that the charge d'affaires of Afghanistan in Islamabad had been summoned twice on Wednesday and Thursday afternoon to report Pakistan's strong protest against the excessive delay and way of restitution of the body. After written and verbal representations, an official delegation went to Afghanistan and brought the body back Thursday night.
The Foreign Ministry press release added that after the news of SP Dawar's death on November 13, the Pakistani embassy and ministry in Kabul had contacted Afghan authorities for confirmation and hand over the body of the deceased to Afghanistan. The ambassador of Pakistan had asked the Afghan government to immediately send the mortal remains to the usual formalities.
The ministry hoped that the Afghan authorities would cooperate fully to determine the circumstances under which a Pakistani officer was found killed in Afghanistan.
A murder raises several questions: DG ISPR
General Asif Ghafoor, Director General of Inter-Service Public Relations (ISPR), said the brutal killing of Tahir Dawar SP in Afghanistan was highly reprehensible.
In a series of tweets, DG ISPR said that the abduction of SP Tahir Dawar, his move to Afghanistan and the follow-up of Afghan authorities had raised issues that further indicated the involvement or resources of the government. a terrorist organization in Afghanistan.
The army spokesman reiterated that, while the Pakistani authorities were conducting investigations, Afghan security forces should cooperate in border fencing and bilateral border security coordination to prohibit the use of Afghan territory in Pakistan.
Speaking before the Senate, Interior State Minister, Shehryar Afridi, said that SP Dawar had been abducted in Islamabad and taken to Mianwali, from where he had been taken away. in Bannu, then in Afghanistan.
The State Minister for the Interior said: "Some people want to destabilize Pakistan."
"We will make an example of those responsible for the murder of SP Dawar and we will ensure that the case reaches its logical conclusion, whether in Pakistan or Afghanistan," Afridi promised.
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