Kohat Jail, Lakki sub-jail handed over to army

Source The News

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.

17 prisoners injured in Kohat jail sectarian clash

Source Pakistan Observer


Seventeen prisoners were injured in a sectarian clash in Kohat Jail on Sunday, police said. The clash started at 8:00am when the prisoners belonging to Sunni and Shia sects exchanged hot words over some issue. Seventeen prisoners were injured in the clash who were shifted to the hospital situated inside the jail premises for treatment. Heavy contingents of police soon reached the jail and brought the situation under control. The injured included 10 from the Shia sect and seven from the Sunni sect, who belong to Kohat, Hangu, Orakzai Agency and Tirah Valley. A local jirga was negotiating with the prisoners to settle the dispute.