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09-05-2016, 03:52 AM
Amjad Afridi says they are neither being given salary
**r pension since the case is unprecedented
PESHAWAR: Senior bureaucrat Amjad Shahid Afridi mysteriously went missing more than two years ago, but the government failed to recover him and **w it has stopped the financial benefits that his family was getting.
Amjad Shahid Afridi, a grade-20 ******r of the Pakistan Administrative Service, was serving as director general Wafaqi Mohtasib, Islamabad, when he was transferred to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. As he was waiting for his new assignment, he went missing from the state guest house on March 18, 2014.
“While he remains missing, the KP government stopped his pay and asked the federal government to issue pension to the family. The federal government responded by demanding the details of the efforts done by the authorities in the province for the recovery of our father and application from the family on the stamp paper that they are willing to avail the family pension,” Waseem Khan Afridi, the son of the missing bureaucrat, told The News.
He added that he recently sent emails and letters to Chief Minister Pervez Khattak and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan to seek their help in releasing the pay of his father.
“After months the federal government issued **tification of his missing and allowed us to avail the family pension but with ** mechanism how to furnish the paper as there was ** precedent of submitting the family pension papers in such case that is usually submitted in case an employee is considered dead. Filled with indignation we submitted a**ther application to KP government to release his salary and pay it till superannuation,” said Waseem Afridi in his letters to the top government functionaries.
“It’s almost two and a half years we have been going through severe psychological and financial turmoil as my dad was the only source of income of our family. We never tried to politicise the issue or gain any media coverage by taking up the issue in different forums, believing Allah will help us get our father back,” Waseem Afridi complained.
The family is living with an uncle in Peshawar since the day Amjad Afridi went missing. Waseem is a doctor and his brother Shahid Najam Afridi is a software engineer but both are jobless. His mother, a housewife, and his three sisters, one married and two studying in college, are praying for the safe return of Amjad Afridi. The family has never celebrated any happy occasion since March 2014 when Amjad Afridi went missing.
“Our father was serving as Director General Wafaqi Mohtasib Islamabad when his services were sought by KP government for appointment on an important position. We were very happy as he was returning to our home city. We vacated the official residence in Islamabad and temporarily shifted to our village in Khyber Agency. My dad shifted to the state guesthouse in Peshawar as he waited for his posting order and allocation of official residence,” recalled Waseem in his letter.
He added that his father went missing on March 18, 2014 from the state guest house. “The very next day his car was recovered from Motorway M-1 near Chach interchange where it was abandoned after removing its computerised number plates. All his important documents, medicines, laptop, cameras and paintings were safe in his car. The same night FIR was registered under PPC-365 and an investigation team was formed to search for him. An assistant sub- inspector was initially investigating the case,” Waseem Afridi recalled.
According to the family, the next day a letter was reportedly recovered from Amjad Afridi’s room hinting he committed suicide by jumping into the river Indus. The letter asked his family **t to bother about his whereabouts and even his body if **t found.
“Although the then SSP Operations in Peshawar was painstakingly and solely working to trace the whereabouts of my father, he confessed that he is much disappointed with the civil servants’ organization and political government for criminal negligence in the matter,” recalled Waseem Afridi in the letter.
He argued that his father was **t an ordinary civil servant. “After securing the first position in every examination in his life and achieving distinction in physics from University of Kansas, he was offered a scholarship in NASA in the US. However, he preferred to come back to the country, appeared in CSS and topped it to join the PAS, then k**wn as DMG,” he **ted.
“Our father served this nation with commitment and devotion and tried to reform wherever he was posted. He served as Secretary ST & IT , Secretary Schools and Literacy, Secretary Higher Education and the founder of IT Board at KP but he never acted as a bureaucrat. He remained what he was throughout his life. He never came under pressure or influence of any authority and did what he had to do,” Waseem Afridi stressed.
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**r pension since the case is unprecedented
PESHAWAR: Senior bureaucrat Amjad Shahid Afridi mysteriously went missing more than two years ago, but the government failed to recover him and **w it has stopped the financial benefits that his family was getting.
Amjad Shahid Afridi, a grade-20 ******r of the Pakistan Administrative Service, was serving as director general Wafaqi Mohtasib, Islamabad, when he was transferred to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. As he was waiting for his new assignment, he went missing from the state guest house on March 18, 2014.
“While he remains missing, the KP government stopped his pay and asked the federal government to issue pension to the family. The federal government responded by demanding the details of the efforts done by the authorities in the province for the recovery of our father and application from the family on the stamp paper that they are willing to avail the family pension,” Waseem Khan Afridi, the son of the missing bureaucrat, told The News.
He added that he recently sent emails and letters to Chief Minister Pervez Khattak and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan to seek their help in releasing the pay of his father.
“After months the federal government issued **tification of his missing and allowed us to avail the family pension but with ** mechanism how to furnish the paper as there was ** precedent of submitting the family pension papers in such case that is usually submitted in case an employee is considered dead. Filled with indignation we submitted a**ther application to KP government to release his salary and pay it till superannuation,” said Waseem Afridi in his letters to the top government functionaries.
“It’s almost two and a half years we have been going through severe psychological and financial turmoil as my dad was the only source of income of our family. We never tried to politicise the issue or gain any media coverage by taking up the issue in different forums, believing Allah will help us get our father back,” Waseem Afridi complained.
The family is living with an uncle in Peshawar since the day Amjad Afridi went missing. Waseem is a doctor and his brother Shahid Najam Afridi is a software engineer but both are jobless. His mother, a housewife, and his three sisters, one married and two studying in college, are praying for the safe return of Amjad Afridi. The family has never celebrated any happy occasion since March 2014 when Amjad Afridi went missing.
“Our father was serving as Director General Wafaqi Mohtasib Islamabad when his services were sought by KP government for appointment on an important position. We were very happy as he was returning to our home city. We vacated the official residence in Islamabad and temporarily shifted to our village in Khyber Agency. My dad shifted to the state guesthouse in Peshawar as he waited for his posting order and allocation of official residence,” recalled Waseem in his letter.
He added that his father went missing on March 18, 2014 from the state guest house. “The very next day his car was recovered from Motorway M-1 near Chach interchange where it was abandoned after removing its computerised number plates. All his important documents, medicines, laptop, cameras and paintings were safe in his car. The same night FIR was registered under PPC-365 and an investigation team was formed to search for him. An assistant sub- inspector was initially investigating the case,” Waseem Afridi recalled.
According to the family, the next day a letter was reportedly recovered from Amjad Afridi’s room hinting he committed suicide by jumping into the river Indus. The letter asked his family **t to bother about his whereabouts and even his body if **t found.
“Although the then SSP Operations in Peshawar was painstakingly and solely working to trace the whereabouts of my father, he confessed that he is much disappointed with the civil servants’ organization and political government for criminal negligence in the matter,” recalled Waseem Afridi in the letter.
He argued that his father was **t an ordinary civil servant. “After securing the first position in every examination in his life and achieving distinction in physics from University of Kansas, he was offered a scholarship in NASA in the US. However, he preferred to come back to the country, appeared in CSS and topped it to join the PAS, then k**wn as DMG,” he **ted.
“Our father served this nation with commitment and devotion and tried to reform wherever he was posted. He served as Secretary ST & IT , Secretary Schools and Literacy, Secretary Higher Education and the founder of IT Board at KP but he never acted as a bureaucrat. He remained what he was throughout his life. He never came under pressure or influence of any authority and did what he had to do,” Waseem Afridi stressed.
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