Sole breadwinner: Slain policeman’s family awaits compensation
Twenty five-year-old Hussain Khan leaves behind a three-year old daughter.
Twenty five-year-old Hussain Khan leaves behind a three-year old daughter. PHOTO: FILE
PESHAWAR:
On March 20, 2012 a police van of the Banamarhi police station was targeted in a bomb blast which claimed lives of two policemen and injured four passersby.
The powerful bomb had been planted in a rickshaw parked on the roadside at Ring Road.
One of the victims of this blast was community police constable, Hussain Khan, a resident of Bahadur Kallay. Hussain was 25-years-old and the father of a three-year-old daughter, Nayab Hussain. He had joined the police force on contract only a year earlier and was on a routine patrol along with sub-inspector Hazrat Ali when the bomb exploded.
Almost nine months have passed since Hussain’s tragic death, but his family has still not received any kind of monetary compensation despite the fact that the provincial government pays Rs0.3 million to families of each man killed in a blast in the province.
“We are poor people. My brother’s death is still a shock for the entire family. But the biggest shock is for his widow and daughter, who are still awaiting financial help because he was the sole bread winner for his family,” Hussain’s brother Arshad Khan told The Express Tribune.
“I was so angry with the police and provincial government’s ignorance that I went to the court to secure compensation for my family, but it is a lengthy process,” said Khan, adding that community policemen share an equal burden of work in the jurisdiction of Banamarhi police station, but the police department has no respect for their efforts.
“It means the police department does not care about them even if they sacrifice their lives fighting militancy.”
Published in The Express Tribune, January 13th, 2013.
On March 20, 2012 a police van of the Banamarhi police station was targeted in a bomb blast which claimed lives of two policemen and injured four passersby.
The powerful bomb had been planted in a rickshaw parked on the roadside at Ring Road.
One of the victims of this blast was community police constable, Hussain Khan, a resident of Bahadur Kallay. Hussain was 25-years-old and the father of a three-year-old daughter, Nayab Hussain. He had joined the police force on contract only a year earlier and was on a routine patrol along with sub-inspector Hazrat Ali when the bomb exploded.
Almost nine months have passed since Hussain’s tragic death, but his family has still not received any kind of monetary compensation despite the fact that the provincial government pays Rs0.3 million to families of each man killed in a blast in the province.
“We are poor people. My brother’s death is still a shock for the entire family. But the biggest shock is for his widow and daughter, who are still awaiting financial help because he was the sole bread winner for his family,” Hussain’s brother Arshad Khan told The Express Tribune.
“I was so angry with the police and provincial government’s ignorance that I went to the court to secure compensation for my family, but it is a lengthy process,” said Khan, adding that community policemen share an equal burden of work in the jurisdiction of Banamarhi police station, but the police department has no respect for their efforts.
“It means the police department does not care about them even if they sacrifice their lives fighting militancy.”
Published in The Express Tribune, January 13th, 2013.