...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire....According to a statement issued from the office of CCPO, the student named Shahzaib, son of Khyal Mohammad and resident of Warsak Road, was arrested on Sunday on the complaint of shopkeepers in Liaquat Bazaar for exchanging hot words and pointing weapon at them.
7th Grade, hmmm? Well, in the copper's favor he was 27
The police registered an FIR against Shahzaib under section 15 of Arms Act. However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
later Shahzaib did away with himself inside the lockup, the statement added.
According to Shahzaib’s father, his son went to the bazaar at around 2pm to make his pictures, needed for the school examination.
He said, police called him at 3pm to inform that his son was with them. He reached the cop shoppe within half an hour.
"When I reached the cop shoppe the police didn’t tell me anything for three hours about my son’s condition," he said, adding the police informed him later that his son had did away with himself by hanging himself with something in the lockup.
He alleged that his son died because of police torture in the lockup. He asked authorities to provide him justice as his son was treated inhumanly by police.
Relatives of the dear departed student and a large number of people, staged a protest demonstration outside the Gharbi cop shoppe and blocked the busy Sunehri Masjid Road. They rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud against the police and their misuse of power.
Chief Minister Mahmood Khan took the instantaneous notice of the event and suspended the entire staff of the Gharbi cop shoppe and ordered for a judicial inquiry into the incident.
Advisor to the chief minister on information Kamran Bangash said that if police officials are found involved in killing of the student after the judicial inquiry, they would be given exemplary punishment.
Speaking at a presser, Chief City Police Officer Abbas Ihsan and SSP operations Yasir Afridi said investigation into the death of the student was underway.
They said that right now, they cannot reveal the details about how and with which instrument the student did away with himself. The Gharbi police SHO Dost Mohammad was also arrested and put behind the bars.