PESHAWAR: A high-level inquiry committee has suggested severe penalization and dismissal of fifty eight officers and officers of the civil and police administrations when holding them liable for last year’s gaolbreak in Dera Ismail Khan.
In its nine-page report submitted to the administration department, the committee conjointly suggested division inquiry against ninety seven policemen deployed within the jail.
“The entire body machinery at divisional and district levels crashed similar to a house of cards. No instrument of the govt. may well be seen anyplace and none came to assist to avoid wasting the Central Jail D.I. Khan,” same the report obtainable with Dawn.
This is the second inquiry dole out to repair responsibility on delinquent officers and officers. the primary enquiry, additional elaborate and graphic, was conducted shortly when the attack on the jail.
Inquiry committee submits report on D.I. Khan gaolbreak
It is not clear if the govt. has issued any charge-sheet or taken action against them. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s institution secretary was approached for comment however he wasn't obtainable in his workplace.
A group of militants had attacked the D.I. Khan Central Jail within the night between July twenty nine and thirty last year and got 253 prisoners, among them fifteen high-profile terrorists, freed. The attackers killed four prisoners happiness to the religious sect community and 2 policemen.
The verboten Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the brazen attack.
The PTI-led KP government had curst intelligence failure for one in all the most important jailbreaks within the country’s history, however each the inquiries clearly steered that intelligence was there however police had merely lost the nerve to fight.
The report unconcealed that the jail workers had sympathies with militants and same that once the attackers threw the gauntlet, none of the workers challenged them however rather gave the impression to facilitate them.
The committee was vital of the role of fifty to fifty nine jail workers UN agency, despite having uncertain credentials and dubious characters, had been transferred from Bannu jail to D.I. Khan Central Jail.
The Bannu jail was attacked in Gregorian calendar month 2012 and militants unchained concerning four hundred prisoners.
The inquiry committee powerfully criticised the role of police and intelligence agencies and same the whole exercise dole out at the divisional and district levels to counter the attack was strictly cosmetic and no steps may well be seen on the bottom.
“Police were all spineless and faint and undirected since there was no-one to steer them. they need more black chapter to the history of police that they may not be forgiven,” the report same.
It same that solely 2 policemen in associate armed self-propelled vehicle place up resistance to the militants and engaged them within the jail. The militants attacked the APC with 2 reaction propulsion grenades and each policemen were killed. That was the sole stripped resistance the militants faced; not one bullet was unemployed by policemen manning the strategic posts within the jail.
The committee noted that the quarters involved, as well as police and jail departments, had received a threat alert from the native workplace of Inter-Services Intelligence that was completely mentioned at a gathering command before the attack. Even intelligence agencies cautioned the administration to the extent that militants had reached the neighbourhood of D.I. Khan town and would positively attack the jail. a gathering was command that was attended by senior officers of the district administration and law-enforcement agencies, as well as military. A contingency arrange was chalked bent foil any attack.
The militants, in keeping with the report, were armed with significant weapons and impermanent explosive devices and explosives-laden vehicles. “The attack was similar to a blitzkrieg” and also the attackers knocked out the outer cordon of police and simply entered the jail.
The committee failed to suggest any action against the then divisional commissioner as a result of he had created necessary efforts for the jail’s security. ‘Minor’ penalty has been suggested for the then regional peace officer and deputy commissioner.
However, it same the role compete by District peace officer Sohail Khalid, UN agency is at the present in police’s counter-terrorism unit, as a team leader throughout the attack was skanky and pathetic.
“The enquiry committee is of the opinion that DPO Sohail Khalid when evincing generous quantity of spirit truly deserves major penalty and is suggested for dismissal from service,” the report same. It conjointly suggested dismissal of Touheed Khan, the then SP of Elite Force, and major penalty for former DSP Abdul Ghafoor Khan, ex-DSP Salahuddin, reserve inspector Umar Daraz Khan, ex-SHO Mahomet Nawaz Khan, commissioned officer Noor Aslam and former superintendent of D.I. Khan Central Jail Ghulam Rabbani.
The committee suggested division inquiry against ninety seven policemen deployed within the jail and removal of over fifty jail constables from service.
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