Source Dawn
“After ending the fighting, SSP Atiqullah Wazir, DSP Ihsanullah Khan, jail superintendent Aitezaz Jadoon, other senior officials and representatives of Shia and Sunni prisoners held a jirga to find out solution to the ongoing sectarian tension in the prison,” sources said.
The prisoners assured the administration that they would not indulge in wall chalking, which hurt the feelings of the rival sect, and live together peacefully in future.
The administration also cleared the wall chalking, which caused clash between the two groups of prisoners, and decided to search the inmates every month to confiscate illegal items from them.
The jail staff also recovered sharp edge tools and knives, made from cutting ghee tins, from both the groups of prisoners.
The district administration deployed 20 more policemen to monitor activities of the prisoners. It had already detailed 20 policemen for security of the jail earlier due to shortage of prisoner staff.
Meanwhile, the injured prisoners were discharged from hospitals and sent back to their lockups on Monday.
It is worth mentioning that local journalists received phone calls from prisoners, belonging to both groups, after the clashes. The prisoners spread rumours about killing of their colleagues. They also said that jail administration started clean-up operation in the prison. However, prison authorities denied the reports.Sources said that prisoners were not only possessing cellular phones but hashish was also sold in the jail openly. The prisoners used to talk to their families and friends by cellular phones and also ran drug business, a jail official confided.
The administration of Kohat jail has resorted to traditional way of convening a jirga to defuse sectarian tension among prisoners instead of taking legal action against the inmates, who clashed with each other two day ago, according to well-placed sources.
Seventeen prisoners were injured when Shia and Sunni inmates of the jail clashed on Sunday over chalking of controversial slogans on the walls of jail barracks.“After ending the fighting, SSP Atiqullah Wazir, DSP Ihsanullah Khan, jail superintendent Aitezaz Jadoon, other senior officials and representatives of Shia and Sunni prisoners held a jirga to find out solution to the ongoing sectarian tension in the prison,” sources said.
The prisoners assured the administration that they would not indulge in wall chalking, which hurt the feelings of the rival sect, and live together peacefully in future.
The administration also cleared the wall chalking, which caused clash between the two groups of prisoners, and decided to search the inmates every month to confiscate illegal items from them.
The jail staff also recovered sharp edge tools and knives, made from cutting ghee tins, from both the groups of prisoners.
The district administration deployed 20 more policemen to monitor activities of the prisoners. It had already detailed 20 policemen for security of the jail earlier due to shortage of prisoner staff.
Meanwhile, the injured prisoners were discharged from hospitals and sent back to their lockups on Monday.
It is worth mentioning that local journalists received phone calls from prisoners, belonging to both groups, after the clashes. The prisoners spread rumours about killing of their colleagues. They also said that jail administration started clean-up operation in the prison. However, prison authorities denied the reports.Sources said that prisoners were not only possessing cellular phones but hashish was also sold in the jail openly. The prisoners used to talk to their families and friends by cellular phones and also ran drug business, a jail official confided.
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