Pakistan: Prisoners in jail demand to get 7 policemen held hostage

  

In Pakistan's Larkana Central Jail, the prisoners finally released the 7 policemen held hostage. Since last Friday, all these policemen were hostages of prisoners inside the jail. After this rebellion of the prisoners which lasted for about 8 days, the policemen have been freed.

According to a report in 'Dawn', the rebel prisoners were actually demanding the return of one of the 13 dangerous prisoners, Mohammad Ali Khokhar, back to his prison. Please inform that the jail authorities had shifted Khokhar to Shikarpur Jail. After which his comrades who were in jail started a rebellion.

In the face of this revolt of the prisoners, the jail administration has finally had to bow down. To free the 7 policemen from the captivity of the prisoners, the jail administration shifted Khokhar out of Shikarpur Jail to Larkana Central Jail again. It is being told that Khokhar's companions, who were lodged inside the jail, were agitating for the last 7 months to bring him back.

 

It is being told that when the prisoners had taken the policemen hostage, then many attempts were made to solve the matter by talking to them, but all the efforts proved to be in vain. The prisoners had put pressure on the jail administration. A group of prisoners climbed the roof of the jail and set the bedsheets on fire.

Pakistan's opposition party, the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), later conducted talks between the prison administration and the prisoners, and after that the matter was resolved. When the prisoners got assurance from the PPP that they would bring Khokhar back to this jail, then the prisoners released 5 policemen. These included Imran Zuhrani, Murtaza Junejo, Tariq Rajpar, Shahnawaz Korkani and Daman Jagirani.

 

The DIG of the jail said that when Khokhar was brought to this jail, two other policemen Abdul Rashid Golo and Abdul Waheen Golo were also released by the prisoners.