GILGIT: In Gilgit-Baltistan, the right man for the job is a woman. Tahira Yasub became the first woman superintendent in the region earlier this week. She was given her ranks by the inspector general and former chief minister Mehdi Shah in a ceremony on Thursday.
“I am thankful to the government,” Yasub told The Express Tribune during a brief chat on Friday.
A graduate in international relations from Karakoram International University, she has been selected twice to represent Pakistan in UN peacekeeping missions.
In December 2011, she was promoted to the rank of traffic deputy superintendent police (DSP), again becoming the first woman to hold the position in Gilgit-Baltistan.
As DSP, Yasub’s responsibilities included streamlining the flow of traffic in the congested city of Gilgit—a daunting task as traffic violations are a norm. However, she performed her duties with poise and even introduced an effective car parking system.
“I think this is the only way to avoid traffic jams in the city,” she told The Express Tribune. “Drivers are a difficult bunch to deal with.”
Through a driving tutorial programme for women introduced by the G-B police last year, Yasub trained more than 60 locals. The women who passed at the end of the four-week long programme were issued driving licences.
Yasub has also trained local and UN police in Sudan for 14 months before returning to the country in 2012. She has the distinction of being the first woman inspector in G-B’s history.http://tribune.com.pk/story/805962/officer-on-deck-g-b-appoints-first-ever-woman-sp/.
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