Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Parvez Khattak in light of the letter from Inspector General of Police Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Nasir Khan Durrani, has constituted a special committee for the up-gradation of pay scale and Shuhadda package of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police.
The committee will comprise of Minister for Labour & Mineral, Aneesa Zaib Tahir Khaili, Minister Finance Muzaffar Said, Advisor to CM for Information Mushtaq Ghani, Secretary Finance and Secretary Home & Tribal Affairs as its members and AIG Finance CPO as secretary of the committee.
The committee has been directed to submit its report within 15 days keeping in view the existing pay scale of constabulary and junior rank officers and shuhadda package of the Punjab and Islamabad police. It may be recalled that vulnerability of police officers in KP is much higher than other provinces as they have been declared targets of the militants who keep on attacking them in order to demoralize them.
On the other hand KP police fought the war against terror bravely and courageously and sacrificed more than 1200 precious lives in line of duty. Despite all these professional achievements and sacrifices unfortunately their perks and financial compensation are far less than other provinces.
It merits mentioning here that previously the IGP had moved a case for up-gradation of KP police on 15th June 2016 which was retuned back on the ground that the government wanted to maintain a balance with other provinces as at that time they had not upgraded the pay scales.