Police and other government officials attend the funeral of Superintendent of Police (SP) Tahir Khan Dawar in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Nov. 15, 2018. Tahir Khan Dawar, who was police chief of the rural circle of the northwest provincial capital of Peshawar, was kidnapped in Islamabad on Oct. 26 and his body was found in Nangarhar province of Afghanistan on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Umar Qayyum)
ISLAMABAD, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday ordered an immediate inquiry into the murder of a police officer who was allegedly kidnapped in Islamabad and was later killed in Afghanistan.
Khan made the announcement on his Twitter account, saying that he followed the "shocking tragedy" of the murder of Superintendent of Police Tahir Khan Dawar and ordered the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province government to coordinate with Islamabad police in holding an inquiry immediately.
According to reports and officials, Dawar, who was police chief of the rural circle of the northwest provincial capital of Peshawar, was kidnapped in Islamabad on Oct. 26 and his body was found in Nangarhar province of Afghanistan on Tuesday.
Pakistan's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday confirmed that the tortured body found in Nangarhar was certainly that of Dawar, a police officer renowned for his armed encounters with militants.
According to local media reports, the slain officer's body had been handed over to Pakistani authorities in Afghanistan on Thursday, which would be transported to Peshawar for the funeral.
No group has claimed the incident yet.
