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| SP Tahir's body to be handed over to Pakistan tomorrow, says KP information minister |
| 2018-11-15 |
| [DAWN] The body of Superintendent of Police (SP) Tahir Khan Dawar ─ who was kidnapped from Islamabad last month and found dead yesterday in Afghanistan ─ is expected to be handed over to Pakistain authorities tomorrow, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) information minister Shaukat Ali Yousafzai said in a statement on Wednesday. Police and civil administration have been waiting at the Torkham border since Tuesday night to receive the slain SP's body. The body was earlier expected to be handed over to Pak authorities today. Yousafzai said a KP Police delegation had waited at the Torkham border crossing all day for SP Tahir's body but were unsuccessful. He did not mention the reason of the delay. Miram Sadaqat, the spokesperson of the Afghan Red Islamic Thingy, told DawnNewsTV that the organization's volunteers will transfer the body to the Torkham crossing as soon as Afghan authorities hand it over. He said that Afghan police and hospital administration were "collecting information" about the body. SP Tahir, a police officer who had survived two suicide kabooms in Bannu, was kidnapped from Islamabad's G-10/4 area on October 26. A body believed to be his was found in Afghanistan's Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province yesterday. |
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