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Central Jail : Dangerous inmate escapes despite tight security

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KARACHI: Despite ‘fool-proof’ security a hardened prisoner Abdul Hafeez imprisoned on the charges of murder u/s 302 managed to escape from Central Jail Karachi on Monday.

Talking exclusively to NewsPakistan.TV Inspector General Prisons Nusrat Hussain Mangan told that as part of his sentence Abdul Hafeez was sent to work in the colony duly shackled (danda-bairee). He managed to escape from there.

IG further told that the concerned officials have been arrested on charges of neglect.

Earlier on the instruction of the concerned Minister Central Jail’s SSP Murtuza Sheikh has also been suspended.

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M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.