Change of scenery: 80 Sindh prisoners to be shifted to other provinces

It was decided that all sensitive jails will be made bombproof, while jammers will be installed inside prisons.

KARACHI:

A total of 80 of the most-wanted prisoners of Sindh will be shifted to Azad Kashmir and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

This was decided at an inter-provincial meeting of jails IG on Tuesday. The Azad Kashmir prisons inspector-general, officials of the home department and representatives of the United Nations also attended the meeting.

After the meeting, the minister for prisons and anti-corruption, Manzoor Wasan, while briefing the media said, “We have finalised an agreement that a few prisoners would be shifted to other jails including the Attock jail and the Mach jail in Balochistan.”

He added that the meeting discussed the required security measures and it was decided that all sensitive jails will be made bombproof.  “The meeting has also decided to install jammers inside the jail premises to block the use of mobile phones, which is the main source of communication between the criminals and the outside world.”

Published in The Express Tribune, March 5^th, 2014.