Mohammad Tahir Khan Dawar (Urdu: طاہر داوڑ‎; Pashto: طاهر داوړ‎) was a Pakistani police officer and Pashto poet who was abducted from Islamabad on October 26, 2018 and then tortured and killed. His body was found on November 13, 2018 by the locals in the Dur Baba District of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, close to the Torkham border crossing.[4] His postmortem report revealed he had no marks of bullet injury but was rather killed by excessive torture during captivity. He was kept hungry and thirsty for several days, and his legs and arms were broken.[9] He had died a few days before his corpse was found.[3]