Tag: Jail

7 jailed Mumbai attackers refused to provide voice samples: Pakistan

Pakistan has said that the seven 26/11 terror attack accused jailed in the country have refused to provide their voice samples. The Pakistani authorities...

Sri Lanka’s ex-army chief freed from jail

Sri Lanka’s ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka was released from prison on Monday after he was jailed following his unsuccessful bid to unseat the president...

Jail Chief Warden gunned down in Quetta

Miscreants riding on a motorcycle shot dead a senior prison official here in the city on Saturday-Sunday night. Police said that chief warden of the...

Another missing person found dead as LJ guns downs Quetta jail...

A bullet- riddled body of a Baloch youth was discovered from Khuzdar district, 360kms southeast of Quetta, on Saturday morning. According to police, locals...

TTP’s Punjab wing planning to launch attack on Karachi Prison

After the brazen attack on Bannu Jail by the banned Tehrek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which was one of the biggest Jail break in country’s history,...

Taliban issue video of Bannu jail attack

The Taliban have released the video of Bannu jail attack in which Hakimullah Mehsud, chief of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is seen briefing his...

CDA to submit report on construction of jail

The Capital Development Authority (CDA) and officials of the district administration Islamabad would submit report to the chief commissioner on Monday regarding the construction...

Army officials inspect security at Haripur jail

Top senior army officials on Friday visited to the Haripur Central jail and examined the security of the jail to avert an incident like...

Dr Chishti allowed Pak

Indian Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Pakistani scientist Dr Khalil Chishti, serving prison for 20 long years, to leave for Pakistan on humanitarian grounds. The...

Indian prisoner Surjeet Singh to be released

Indian national Surjeet Singh is expected to be freed within three months, his lawyer has said. The Punjab government Monday told the Lahore High Court...

JAIL TALES

On way to UK, Indian youth lands in Lahore jail: An Indian youth, who was supposed to land in United Kingdom, instead landed in...

Intelligence says it warned of Bannu jail attack

Intelligence services warned the government three months ago about a possible attack on a prison in the restive northwest that was raided at the...

Heads roll over Bannu jail break

Taking strong exception to the Bannu Jail attack, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti on Monday ordered removal of four senior officers...

Authorities had prior information

The authorities had information that there was a possibility of a terrorist attack on Bannu jail, sources said on Monday. The information was passed on...

Was brazen jail break an inside job?

A militant commander who helped plan an assault on a jail on Sunday which freed nearly 400 prisoners said his group had inside information....

Terrorist used Facebook, cellphone to escape from Bannu jail

Taliban militants had stormed a jail in Pakistan’s northwest primarily to free Adnan Rashid, on death row for an attempt to assassinate former military...

Pakistani given 12 years jail for militant group support

A Pakistani man living in the United States was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison and five years of supervised release for providing...