PESHAWAR: Awami National Party leader and former information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain is observing his son`s seventh death anniversary on Monday (today) by promoting social service to his community through an organisation named after his son.

Mian Rashid Hussain, the only son of Iftikhar Hussain, was killed by unknown gunmen in his village Pabbi, Nowshera, while his cousin was injured in the terrorist attack on July 24,2010.

It was a revengeful act as Iftikhar Hussain who as information minister of ANP government at the time openly criticised militancy. However, the attack did not force the ANP leader to budge from his stance against terrorism and instead he set up the Rashid Shaheed Foundation (RSF) to care for the children in his village affected by the menace of terrorism and poverty.

RSF is a non-political and non-profitable organisation working for the welfare of the society, speciallyfocusing the health and education sectors. It was formed in Dec 2013 and run with the donation of people.

The RSF will hold the death anniversary function in an under-construction Rashid Shaheed Education Academy in Jalozai, Nowshera, in the evening today (Monday).-BureauReport