Altaf Hamid Rao.
MIRPUR: Rich tributes were paid to Mirpur Division DIG Police Sardar Gulfraz Khan on his retirement from service on maturity of age, at a farewell hosted by Kashmir Press Club Mirpur here on Thursday.
The Press Club hosted the farewell to pay glorious tributes to the senior COP of AJK Police Sardar Gulfraz Khan to laud his 40-year-long meritorious service in AJK Police on the eve of his retirement commencing from March 31, this year.
SSP Mirpur Raja Irfan Salim, senior Kashmiri journalists including Altaf Hamid Rao, President Jammu Kashmir Union of Journalists Hafiz Maqsood, President Central Union of Journalists AJK Muhammad Zafeer Baba, Member Governing Body of AJK Press Foundation Arshad Mahmood Butt, ex President CUJ AJK Muhammad Ramzan Chughtai and a large number of the members of the club including Adnan Jabaar Mughal, Ch. Khalid Anjum, Muhammad Khalil Chohan, Naeem Baloch and others attended the simple but impressive ceremony.
Kashmir Press Club President Sajaad Jaraal and Secretary General Pervez Shehzad lauded the outstanding performance of Sardar Gulfraz Khan during his entire service in different capacities in various parts of AJK.
Speakers said that the role of Khan, being a dynamic police officer for maintaining peace and order and the safety of lives and property of the citizens through the best of his professional skills and abilities during his long service would be a precedent and beacon light for his professional colleagues in service.
They underlined that since the word POLICE stands for Polite, Obedient, Loyal, Intelligent, Cooperative and Efficient, the police officials from upper to bottom, should always focus for the performance of their basic duties especially ensuring the safety of the life and property of the masses, by adopting all above qualities as mentioned in the single word of Police, they suggested.
Speaking on this occasion, the chief guest – DIG Sardar Gulfraz Khan said that police can win the hearts of the masses in letter and spirit through establishing high spirit and sympathy tohelp the suppressed by extending their untiring sincere and honest service to the needy with missionary zeal and being a true public servant.
The Kashmir Press Club President Sajaad Jarral presented the memorial shield to the chief guest on behalf of the club on this occasion.
