Bannu Attack: Jail reforms committee formed: Malik

Security scanners to be installed in jails post Bannu jail attack.

ISLAMABAD:
The government formed a high powered jail reforms committee on Wednesday to prepare recommendations for revamping the jails system in Pakistan. The committee will work under the interior secretary and concerned home secretaries as well as IGPs, said Interior Minister Rehman Malik. He also said that security scanners are to be installed in jails. The decision took place in wake of the Bannu jail attack.


Published in The Express Tribune, April 19th, 2012.