Tahir Dawar

Tahir completed his secondary education in 1982 in Eidak, a village west of Mirali on the periphery of Miramshah, the capital city of North Waziristan.

He did his higher secondary education (FA) in 1984.

He completed his bachelor's degree in 1989 in Miramshah, and started his career in nursing and teaching in North Waziristan.

In 1995, he joined the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police as assistant sub-inspector in Bannu.

He continued his studies while working in the police and completed his master's degree in Pashto in 1997.

He was appointed as station house officer at a police station in Bannu in 1998.

He was promoted as sub-inspector in 2002 and as inspector in 2007.

He was posted to Morocco and Sudan as part of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in 2003 and 2005, respectively.

While posted in Bannu, he was wounded 3 times during a clash with militants in 2005.

He narrowly survived two suicide attacks by the Taliban in 2007 and 2009, in the latter of which he was wounded.

Tahir received the Quaid-e-Azam Police Medal, the highest award for a police officer in Pakistan, for his gallantry and dedication with job.

Subsequently, the militants did suicide attack his home in Bannu in 2008, killing his guard.

Dawar once volunteered to supply arms and ammunition to the Hawed police station in Bannu.

However, the control room made an error, and the information was not passed on to the police station.

The police opened fire on him due to the confusion, and he received a gunshot wound to his right arm.

In March 2009, Tahir was transferred to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), a border control and counterintelligence security agency in Pakistan.

He worked at FIA as an Assistant Director in Peshawar.

He was also sent to Australia and Romania as part of his duty.

However, after his stint with FIA at Bacha Khan International Airport, Peshawar, he left it in July 2013.

Tahir rejoined the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police in July 2013 and served as deputy superintendent of police (DSP) Crime Circle Peshawar, DSP Capital City Police Office, and DSP Faqeerabad Peshawar.

Mohammad Tahir Khan Dawar (طاہر داوڑ; طاهر داوړ) was a Pakistani police officer who was abducted from Islamabad on October 26, 2018 and then tortured and killed.

His body was found on November 13, 2018 by the locals in the Dur Baba District of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, close to the Torkham border crossing.

His postmortem report revealed he had no marks of bullet injury, but was rather killed by excessive torture during captivity.

He was kept hungry and thirsty for several days, and his legs and arms were broken.

He had died a few days before his body was found.

Iftikhar Durrani, the spokesperson of prime minister Imran Khan, laughed away Tahir's kidnapping report in a Voice of America interview on October 28, alleging that Tahir was not abducted but was safe in Peshawar.

After the discovery of his dead body, some Pakistani officials, including the Pakistan Army spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor, expressed concerns for a possible involvement of foreign hands behind the murder.

A joint investigation team was formed by the government to probe the murder, but Tahir's family criticized the government for the lack of progress in the investigation.

Tahir's family, as well as several politicians and activists, demanded that the murder should be investigated through an international commission because the case involved two countries.

The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) held countrywide protests against the murder.

His family also complained that the Pakistani government made no serious efforts to recover Tahir while he was missing for more than two weeks.

He was promoted as superintendent of police (SP) Rural Circle Peshawar in 2018.

Tahir had sympathy for the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM).

When Mohsin Dawar, one of the founding leaders of PTM, won his seat in the 2018 general elections to represent North Waziristan in the National Assembly of Pakistan, Tahir said: “The people of Waziristan have hope that Mohsin Dawar will honor the right of representation and will take the voice of the oppressed to the assembly, whose fury the assembly’s mic will perhaps be unable to withstand.”

In an old video which went viral on social media after his death, Tahir was seen addressing a group protesters, and arguing that India, the United States, and Afghanistan were behind many conspiracies against Pakistan in general and Peshawar in particular.

He said that the Indian intelligence agency RAW, the US CIA, and Afghanistan posed threats to Pakistan, and that the focus of their activities was to target the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor.

On October 26, 2018, Tahir was abducted from Islamabad, Pakistan, where he had arrived the same day from Peshawar to attend a meeting.

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“At 6:30pm [October 26], Tahir talked to his wife in Peshawar and told her that he was in Islamabad and may return if the meeting is over soon, otherwise he would be coming back on Saturday [October 27].

However, at 7:15pm [October 27], his wife received a text message that Tahir was in Sarai Alamgir near Jhelum.” On Octoberd.