Tahir Dawar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Pakistani police officer
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Place of Birth: Mir Ali Tehsil, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
About Tahir Dawar
- Mohammad Tahir Khan Dawar (Urdu: ???? ?????; Pashto: ???? ?????) was a Pakistani police officer and Pashto poet 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 corpse was found.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.
- However, Tahir's family, as well as the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement, rejected that investigation team, and demanded that the murder should be rather investigated through an international commission, since the case involved two countries.
- The family also accused the Pakistani government of making no serious efforts to recover Tahir while he was missing for more than two weeks.
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