Safwat Ghayur

Safwat Ghayur (; 14 July 1959 – 4 August 2010) was an Additional Inspector General of the Police Service of Pakistan, serving as the commandant of the Frontier Constabulary of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Biography Safwat Ghayur was the nephew of Pakistan Movement activist Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar, a cousin of the former Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Owais Ahmed Ghani, and a cousin of former Chief of Armed forces General Abdul Waheed Kakar. His brother-in-law, Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao, was twice the Chief Minister of the province, as well as Interior Minister of Pakistan.

Safwat Ghayur joined the Police Service of Pakistan in 1981 (9th CTP) and worked initially as an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), at various stations of Peshawar, and then as Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) of Peshawar. and was widely praised as a hero

Death and legacy Safwat Ghayur was killed by a targeted suicide bomb blast at the Frontier Constabulary Chowk, Peshawar on the evening of 4 August 2010, when he was driving away from his office without any special security protocol. A pedestrian was killed on the scene and two others later died in the hospital. Eight kilograms of explosives were used; "the severed head of the suspected bomber, who appeared to be in his teens, was found some 20 feet from the gutted vehicle of Mr Ghayur." Responsibility was claimed by Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan.

Interior Minister of Pakistan Rehman Malik honoured him posthumously with the Hilal-e-Shujaat. He was one of the number of police officers killed while in duty from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Police; following his colleagues Malik Saad and Abid Ali.