Officer who misbehaved with girl at airport likely to face punishment

In the case of the airport security force (ASF) officer misbehaving with a girl, the aviation division sought a report.

Karachi: Officer who misbehaved with girl at airport likely to face punishment. The incident the officer’s misbehaviuor took place on March 10 at Jinnah International Airport. The video of it went viral.

According to sources, the incident took place on international arrival, where the little girl, who was going ahead to meet her father coming from abroad, was grabbed by the hair by an ASF officer and blatantly thrown aside.

The ASF had declared the video which went viral on social media as old.

According to the sources, the officer who misbehaved with the girl is likely to be given the harshest punishment.

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The Airports Security Force (ASF)  is a federal airport security force agency under the administrative control of the Secretary to the Government of Pakistan for Aviation which is responsible for protecting the airports, facilities and the planes (on-ground or in-air) in Pakistan. ASF safeguards the civil aviation industry against unlawful interferences, adopting counter terrorism measures, preventing crime and maintaining law and order within the limits of airports in Pakistan. The current Director General of ASF is Major General Adnan Asif Jah Shad HI(M). The ASF is an 14,560-personnel organisation.

History

The ASF was established in 1976 under the Airports Security Force Act LXXVII of 1975 initially as the Directorate of the Department of Civil Aviation. After the hijacking of a Pakistan International Airlines aeroplane in March 1981, sensing the contradictory requirements of security and facilitation, the Airports Security Force (ASF) was separated, and in December 1983, was placed under the folds of the Ministry of Defence.

Later, in 2013 under the umbrella of Cabinet Secretariat, an Aviation Division was created and Airports Security Force (ASF), Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) came under the control of new division. The Aviation Division is headed by the Aviation Secretary of Pakistan. The ASF is mainly responsible for security of airports and aircraft.