"Both of them were very close friends since school times and Iftikhar joined the police because of his friend," he added.
Most of the people joining police lower ranks belong to middle or poor-class families in the country of 220 million people where, according to the UNDP "Multidimensional Poverty Index 2022," the intensity of deprivation, which is the average deprivation score among people living in multidimensional poverty, is 51.7%.
"Iftikhar hailed from a very poor family and I don't know how his family will survive now," Dawood said.