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The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cabinet was told on Monday that the Kohat Central Jail and Lakki Marwat sub-jail had been handed over to Pakistan Army for conversion into detention centres where under-trial terrorists could be interrogated.
Briefing reporters after a cabinet meeting, Minister for Information Mian Iftikhar Hussain said that after proper identification and classification of the detainees arrested on terrorism charges and the under-trial prisoners would be shifted to detention centres in Kohat and Lakki Marwat.
“A list of hardcore militants has been handed over to the Special Branch,” he said, adding that some 107 prisoners had been shifted from the Central Jail Peshawar to other jails of the province.
The minister said the provincial government had requested the federal government and the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi to obtain permission for installing jammers to block the use of mobile phones at the Central Prison, Peshawar.
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cabinet was told on Monday that the Kohat Central Jail and Lakki Marwat sub-jail had been handed over to Pakistan Army for conversion into detention centres where under-trial terrorists could be interrogated.
Briefing reporters after a cabinet meeting, Minister for Information Mian Iftikhar Hussain said that after proper identification and classification of the detainees arrested on terrorism charges and the under-trial prisoners would be shifted to detention centres in Kohat and Lakki Marwat.
“A list of hardcore militants has been handed over to the Special Branch,” he said, adding that some 107 prisoners had been shifted from the Central Jail Peshawar to other jails of the province.
The minister said the provincial government had requested the federal government and the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi to obtain permission for installing jammers to block the use of mobile phones at the Central Prison, Peshawar.
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