the security guard - Tariq Mahmood that saved many ppl from dying and risked his life, put his job in the line of duty, the security guard who sacrificed his family for his own life, the security guard who was killed at the marriot hotel in islamabad on friday evening is a shaheed,
this security guard who left a family behind, who lived in chakwaal, who at the age of 37 left this finite world doing his job is a shaheed.
this security guard was my uncle 
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omg 
rlyy sry..
May his soul rest in peace(ameen)
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Aameen
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Im sorry for your loss fbi... The nation is proud of your Uncles sacrfice...
I believe he was from Chakwal area... I am also from Chakwal area, what village are you from?
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thanks.
am from noor pur sehthi area, and a road from there goes to a village called Bhaal, and where you from?
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Thats not far from my gao.. Im from Dulmial, near Choa Saidan Shah... General Safdar was from my gaon.
Our area has certainly produced many brave men...
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i am sorry for ur loss
INNA LILLAH E WA INNAL ILAIHER RAJEOON
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inna lillah wa inna ileyhi rajioon
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such a small world 
Your uncle Shaheed Tariq Mahmood shares the name with another brave son of this soil , Brigadier Tariq mehmood, “Brig. T M” of Special Services Group (SSG) as was known among masses
indeed he saved many lives, and much more.. May Allah bless his soul and give hidaya to young men who are planing to blow up thier bodies with explosives in comming days to kill innocent people… in other words entire humanity :no:
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very sorry to hear this. may his soul rest in peace. amen
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Thank you every one, And Aameen
Allah will indeed reward him and give him a high status in jannah and may his faimly have sabr for their loss.
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fbi786
your family must be proud of this real hero who put his life on the line to save so many others. Please let his family know that so many people have them in thoughts and prayers, and are proud to point him out to everyone as a true hero and what Pakistanis are like.
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inna lillah wa inna ileyhi rajioon
May Allah grant him jannah and give his family strength.
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Sorry to hear that :(...
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Sorry to hear, but what exactualy did he do? do u have an english link to his story.
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He saved the country from disastor and spared foreign office from long lingering nightmare…
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Low pay but high cost for security guards
ISLAMABAD (Reuters)- Pakistani security guard Tariq Mahmood was just doing his job when he was killed last month.
Mahmood, a 37-year-old father of three, including a newborn baby, worked at a five star hotel in the capital, Islamabad, earning about $3 a day. He stopped a man trying to get into the hotel on January 26. The man was a suicide bomber and detonated explosives strapped to his body, killing himself and Mahmood.
Mahmood’s wife, Ismat Maab, who is in her early 30s, said she had got lots of praise for her husband’s action but no help yet, although the hotel her husband died protecting had promised compensation. “My husband gave his life to save the lives of others but what do we get in return? Nothing,” Maab said at her simple, three-room home in Rawalpindi. The hotel said it would soon start giving Mahmood’s family his wages of about $80 a month, and would do so for the next 10 years, as well as other compensation.
Private guards, invariably clad in blue uniforms, can be seen outside hotels, offices and virtually every house in upmarket neighbourhoods in Islamabad and other cities. They shiver through 12-hour shifts in little booths by people’s front gates in winter and swelter in summer. Many clutch AK-47 rifles or pump-action shotguns but many are not armed.
Mahmood had worked as a guard for six years after leaving the army, one of hundreds of thousands of Pakistani men of all ages and backgrounds who earn their living protecting the well heeled.
From old soldiers with long white beards to youngsters furthering their education in their spare time, the private guards are in effect an auxiliary police force in a country haunted by fear of crime and militant violence. Most guards in Pakistan are employed by one of the country’s more than 500 registered security companies. But low wages, long hours and, in many cases, no insurance, have left them highly vulnerable.
“Up to 100 people come to work for daily wages at our company every day, including some who have bachelor’s degrees,” said Mohammad Younas, one of scores of blue-uniformed men milling about outside a guard company office in Islamabad, waiting to be assigned work for the day. “Our lives are at stake every day but what do we get in return? Just a few thousands rupees,” he said.
Younas served in an army artillery unit during a 1971 war with India. His guard wages now supplement his 2,000 rupees ($30) a month army pension.
Typically, a security company will charge a customer about $110 a month for an unarmed guard, who gets about $80 of that. A gun for the guard would set the customer back about another $15 a month.
The managing director of one of the Pakistan’s oldest guard companies said the wages he paid his men were proportionate to what people were willing to pay to be protected — and most weren’t willing to pay too much.
“Banks are doing millions of rupees of business and paying good salaries to their employees but they aren’t ready to pay a security guard 5,000 rupees,” said Ikram Saigol, managing director of the SMS security company.
SMS was set up in Karachi in the late 1980s during a wave of kidnapping. With crime, as well as sectarian and militant violence all seething, Saigol said Pakistan’s estimated 300,000 private guards provided people with a second line of defence, and prospects for business were bright. “The macro security of citizens is the responsibility of the state but individual security is the responsibility of individuals,” he said. reuters
Govt. should honour these men, who sacrificed their life in the line of duty. Mere appreciation is not enough to support a family.
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that's funny. he was my uncle too. that would make you related to me, and somehow I doubt that.
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Maybe its about time we ask our uncles and aunts to quit working for these "security forces".
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Security guard is an honorable job because of some boneheads you want to quit May Allah gives guidance to these suicide gangs if there is a little soft corner left in their hearts