RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa has paid rich tribute to the martyrs of police, saying the sacrifices rendered by security forces would not go waste. Major General Asif Ghafoor, the military spokesman, in a Twitter message on Police Shuhada (martyrs) Day said, “Salute to Suhadas of Police and their brave families from Pakistan Armed Forces.” According to the ISPR, the Pakistan Army imparted counter-terrorism training to over 60,000 police personnel across the country.
It said that over 17,000 police officials were trained by the army in Sindh, 20,000 in Punjab, 18,000 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 3,000 in Balochistan, 600 in Islamabad and 2,200 in Azad Jammu and Kashmir. The Police Martyrs’ Day is being observed for the third consecutive year on the death anniversary of Shaheed Safwat Ghayur, the then commandant of Frontier Constabulary KP Police, who was martyred in a suicide attack on his vehicle near the paramilitary force’s headquarters on August 4, 2010.
Published in Daily Times, August 5th 2017.
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