Sukkur prison superintendent suspended for ‘facilitating jailed terrorists’

Nasir Khan, the senior jail superintendent of Sukkur’s Central Jail, has been suspended for providing ‘telephone facilities’ to ‘terrorists’ incarcerated at the prison. 

This was announced by Ziaul Hassan Lanjar, the provincial minister for law and prisons, on Thursday at a meeting held to review development works underway at Sindh’s prisons.  He said a committee had been formed under DIG Prisons Ashraf Nizamani to probe incidences of undue facilities being given to influential inmates in Sukkur’s central prison.

The minister added that another committee was formed to make jail personnel’s salaries equivalent to the provincial police force. The compensation granted to heirs of martyred jail personnel would also be brought at par with the amount currently being given to families of martyred officials of the Sindh Police.