The forty-year old man has left behind his wife, six children, three sisters and a brother, all dependent on him.
Salahuddin was living in Peshawar and had come to Islamabad to see off some relatives at the airport. They were going to the airport when the Islamabad Police constable, Saeed stopped them near the Sector G-9 bus terminal. Constable Saeed tried to take him to the Margalla Police Station in a taxi and somehow a scuffle took place, which resulted in Salahuddin being allegedly pushed out of the moving vehicle by the police officials.
Salahuddin sustained critical injuries and was admitted to the PIMS where breathed his last on Tuesday evening. The dead body was handed over to the relatives today (Wednesday) at 3.30 p.m.
On hearing the news of Salahuddin's death, a large number of Afghan nationals, living in the capital, gathered at the PIMS and staged a protest rally against what they alleged inhuman treatment being meted out to all Afghans living in Pakistan.
Activists belonging to Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) also joined the protest rally. A leader of RAWA said that agitators who gathered after hearing the news about Salahuddin's death wanted to approach the UN offices in the capital but the city police and administration prevented them from doing so.
"We wanted to apprise them (UN agencies in the capital) of the humiliating treatment the Afghan refugees are being subjected to in Pakistan. We wanted to tell the world that not only in Pakistan but in Iran and in other parts of the world as well, the Afghan refugees are being treated very badly," said the RAWA activists.
