Career of SSP Farooq Awan SSP Awan has spent most of his career in anti-terrorism activities. He has been awarded with various awards for bravery and gallantry during his career. Some significant cases that the policeman has worked on include the Sheraton bombing of French Navy personnel in Karachi, Daniel Pearl murder case, Riaz Lalji kidnapping, attack on Iranian Engineers, attack on Saudi consulate and on other sectarian natured criminal activities. He was also the Station House Officer of Karachi’s Clifton Police Station when Mir Murtaza Bhutto was killed in the police station’s jurisdiction in 1996. The officer is credited with being the first police officer to begin the fight against terrorists in 2002, when French engineers were killed at a blast at Sheraton hotel in Karachi and also breaking the backbone of groups such as the Harkatul Mujahideen al Almi and others. Recently, he was investigating the killing of Karachi Universitys dean of the faculty of Islamic Studies, Prof Dr Muhammad Shakeel Auj. Former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf had decorated him with the Sitara-i-Shujaat in 2002. He also received the Hilal-i-Shujaat from former president Asif Ali Zardari in 2011. He has served as DSP anti-terror wing of the Crime Investigation Department (CID), as an SSP with the Anti-Violent Crime Cell (AVCC), Investigation East, Crime Branch and Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of the Crime Investigation Agency (CIA). His name was also included in the six police officers who were in the TTP hit-list. He is also said to have narrowly missed a militant attack on him in 2005. In January 2009, the police officer had once also been held hostage by aides of then Tehreek-i-Taliban (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud and also suffered injuries in a resultant clash with the militants near Al-Asif Square in Karachi’s Sohrab Goth area. He was also among 71 police officers who were demoted in 2013 on the orders of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. The apex court had withdrawn all out-of-turn promotions — known as shoulder promotions in bureaucratic parlance — which were handed out in the decade prior to the instructions.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 04:45:55 +0000
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