Malik Saad | |
Birth Date: | 1959 5, df=yes |
Placeofburial: | Kohat, North-West Frontier Province (now-Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) |
Birth Place: | Abbottabad, North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), West-Pakistan |
Death Place: | Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province |
Birth Name: | Malik Muhammad Saad Khan |
Branch: | Police Service of Pakistan |
Serviceyears: | 1983–2007 |
Rank: | Deputy Inspector General |
Unit: | Frontier Police – Peshawar Branch |
Commands: | Chief Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) DG Peshawar Development Authority Adminis. Municipal Corporation Commandant Frontier Reserve Police |
Battles: | War in Northern West-Pakistan |
Awards: | Nishan-e-Shujaat (2007) |
Malik Muhammad Saad Khan Shaheed (19 May 1959 – 27 January 2007), was one-star rank senior police officer, engineer, and former Chief Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) of Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan. He was in charge of security in the provincial capital of Peshawar. He was killed in a suicide bomb attack while on duty reviewing security arrangements during a Shia procession during the Islamic month of Muharram on 27 January 2007.[1]
Still young Malik Saad was martyred in a suicide attack on 27 January 2007. His funeral was attended by over 200,000 people and his legacy remains an integral part of the history of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province and the Civil Services of Pakistan.
Numerous buildings and charities have been named after him, including the Malik Muhammad Saad Khan Shaheed flyover, a project which Malik Saad personally began during his tenure as DG CD&MDD and the Peshawar Police Lines, which was renamed the Malik Saad Shaheed Police Lines in his honour. Malik Saad was awarded the Nishan-e-Shujaat, the highest civilian award for gallantry.