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IGP Ghani did say he had been asked by a senior official to kill two boys, but he did not identify the person who allegedly issued the order.On October 22, a user on X, formerly known as Twitter, shared a two-minute-and-34-second clip from a news programme featuring a journalist interviewing former KP IGP Ghani.“Former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Inspector General of Police Ihsan Ghani says that KP Chief Minister Sohail Afridi had….
During the interview, Ghani said: “No names, no places, nothing.
I was asked by the highest office to kill two boys.
I didn’t.”Ghani did not name the person who allegedly issued the order or mention CM Afridi.
The full programme can be viewed here.Geo Fact Check also contacted Ghani, who rejected the claim linking the alleged order to Afridi. “I have never even met Sohail Afridi,” he said over the phone.Ghani told Geo Fact Check that he served as KP’s inspector general of police from April to September 2013.
He later served as national coordinator of the National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA) from 2015 to 2018.
He said he retired in 2018 and does not currently hold any government office.Ghani added that the incident he described in the interview dated back to the early years of his service.According to the KP Police website, Ghani served as provincial police chief in 2013.
Afridi, meanwhile, became chief minister on October 15, 2025, according to the Chief Minister’s Office website.The dates establish that Ghani’s tenure as provincial police chief ended more than 12 years before CM Afridi took office.It must be mentioned that even in the video posted online Ghani does not name now-dysfunctional CM Afridi.Verdict: The video shows former KP police chief Ghani discussing an alleged order to kill two boys, but he….
Ghani has explicitly rejected claims linking the incident to CM Afridi, saying he has never met him.
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