Has Pakistan topped the list of number of jail breaks yet? Or must be competing hard with some of the most poor latin american states. The only difference is that we have the worst of terrorists who keep breaking jails while rest of the world keeps them somewhere in deserted islands.
Pakistanis on trial in massacre of 10 foreign climbers escape jailBY SYED RAZA HASSAN ISLAMABAD Fri Feb 27, 2015 5:35am EST
(Reuters) - Two Pakistani militant suspects facing trial for the massacre of 10 foreign climbers two years ago escaped from jail on Friday, an official said.
The 2013 killing of the climbers and their local guide in a pre-dawn attack on their base camp on Nanga Parbat, the ninth highest mountain in the world, dealt a severe blow to Pakistan’s mountaineering tourism industry.
Two other prisoners were shot and killed in the jailbreak in northern Gilgit agency early on Friday morning, said Sultan Faisal, the prison’s deputy inspector general.
The four had dug a tunnel from their barracks to the wall of the prison, another jail official said on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to talk to the media.
The two who escaped were among about a dozen suspected Lashkar-e-Jhangvi militants jailed while on trial for the Nanga Parbat massacre, Faisal said, adding that two jail officials had been suspended pending an investigation.
Victims of the mountain assault included climbers from China, Lithuania, Nepal, Slovakia,Ukraine and one person with joint U.S.-Chinese citizenship. One Chinese climber escaped.
The Pakistani Taliban originally claimed responsibility for the slaughter by gunmen dressed as police officers, but most of those arrested allegedly belong to Lashkar-e-Jhangi, a separate militant movement of extremist Sunni Muslims loosely allied with the Taliban.
The once-peaceful areas of northern Pakistan where the Himalayan, Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountain ranges meet have been increasingly infiltrated by militants seeking to gain footholds beyond their traditional hideouts on Pakistan’s porous border with Afghanistan.
(Reporting by Syed Raza Hassan. Writing by Kay Johnson; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore)
Re: Another Jail break: Lashkar-e-Jhangvi militants escaped
The blood of these climbers is on Shahbaz Sharif and PMLN in general. The bloody Sharif brothers must be brought to justice. They have failed time and again to break ties with extremists and failed bring them to justice.
Re: Another Jail break: Lashkar-e-Jhangvi militants escaped
That is such terrible news. I saw a discussion on a climbing forum just last night and answered concerns about some of climbers that are going to Pak to climb and I told them that things are going to be better this climbing season based on this news GB forms special police unit for mountaineers
And now this happens. It is such unfortunate incident.
Re: Another Jail break: Lashkar-e-Jhangvi militants escaped
Why they arrest them, why don't they just shoot them..
These killers are not doing it because of the love of the religion, their agenda is to isolate Pakistan.. that is why attack on cricket team and these hikers...
Re: Another Jail break: Lashkar-e-Jhangvi militants escaped
The blood of these climbers is on Shahbaz Sharif and PMLN in general. The bloody Sharif brothers must be brought to justice. They have failed time and again to break ties with extremists and failed bring them to justice.
Right NAP, the military courts and the executions are not bringing them to justice right?