Shazia is first woman top cop in Malakand
MALAKAND: Shazia Ishaq, 25, belonging to a remote village of Upper Chitral, has become the first woman police officer in Malakand division ater she passed the competitive examination of the Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC).
Daughter of a retired junior commissioned officer of the Pak Army, Shazia had earned a BS degree in political science from Islamia College University in 2018.
She said the Police Service of Pakistan (PSP) was her first choice in the competitive examination as she yearned to be a police officer from her childhood.
Explaining the reason for her choice, she said in the male-dominated society a woman police officer could be a “ray of hope” for women in distress.
Shazia said the presence of women police officers in and around the police stations would help the women feel secure. “It was a major ambition in my life to help the women in distress.”
She said another aim of her choice of joining the police service was to raise the spirits of women so they could be able to take hard jobs beyond their traditional roles and prove their metle.
Regarding the alarming rise in suicide cases involving women in Chitral, she said it were the social prejudices which frustrated the women to take such extreme steps.
She admired her parents for giving her support to a level, which filled her with selfconfidence and respect for humanity.
About her preparations for the examinations, she said she worked consistently for one year and passed it in her first atempt.
“Hard work with consistency is the basic condition to achieving any target.”
Chitral is a town situated in northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The verdant, plunging valleys of the northern Chitral district have long atracted tourists for their natural beauty and their brush with legend as the home of the Kalash, who claim ancestry from Alexander the Great.
In 2019, Prince William and his wife Kate flew near the Afghan border to visit a remote Hindu Kush glacier in Chitral.
The British royals travelled by helicopter to a glacier in Broghil Valley National Park to see the effects of climate change in one of the most glaciated areas of the world.