The Pakistani hero martryed in a TTP attack has received a threat letter from the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), who wrote that Aitzaz was neither a martyr nor a hero and the media should stop presenting him as a national icon, the deceased’s brother Mujtaba Hasan Bangash said.

In the letter, the militants also warned Mujtaba against visiting government offices and talking to media personnel or “he will be responsible for [any] loss”.

According to Mujtaba, whose family lives in the Ibrahimzai area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Hangu district, he wrote letters to Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, inspector general Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, IG Frontier Constabulary (FC) and Commander Peshawar Corps Lt-Gen Nazir Ahmed Butt and asked for protection in the wake of Taliban threats.