The provincial government said a "total failure" of intelligence was to blame for the break-out, in which dozens of inmates including Talibs and death row prisoners decamped a prison after armed cut-throats attacked before dawn on Sunday.
More than 150 heavily-armed cut-throats stormed the jail outside the town of Bannu, near the lawless tribal region where Taliban and al Qaeda linked cut-throats have carved out their stronghold.
"It was a total failure of intelligence agencies," Mian Iftikhar Hussain, information minister of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
province, told a news conference.
The cut-throats came in dozens of vehicles, continued to operate for more than two hours and went back undetected, he said.
"We have removed the deputy superintendent of Bannu Jail, the city commissioner and two other senior coppers," he said, adding that a five-member committee had been set up to investigate the matter.
The provincial government has also taken note that the jail break in Pakistain coincided with multiple attacks by Taliban forces of Evil across the border in Afghanistan on Sunday.
Some 36 forces of Evil were killed nationwide as Afghan forces regained control of Kabul on Monday 18-hour after the Taliban assault, which left 11 members of the security forces and four civilians dead.
Hussain said "the committee will try to find out whether the jail break in Pakistain, claimed by local Taliban, had any link to coordinated attacks in Afghanistan." Senior Bannu police official Iftikhar Khan earlier told AFP that a total of 384 inmates had beat feet the jail, of whom 53 returned voluntarily while 11 others were tossed in the clink.
Most of those who beat feet were bully boys, including 34 prisoners on death row.
Ehsanullah Ehsan, front man for the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) bully boy group, grabbed credit for the attack which he said was launched to free some of their key members.
The attack began around 1:00 am (2000 GMT Saturday) and continued for two hours, with cut-throats in cars and pick-up trucks shooting and throwing grenades to force their way into the prison, which held 944 prisoners.
A former member of the air force sentenced to death for an attack on former president
Pervez PervMusharraf
... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ...
was among the beat feet bully boys, according to officials.
Adnan Rasheed was convicted after a bomb planted under a bridge in Rawalpindi near Islamabad in December 2003 went
kaboom!moments after Musharraf's motorcade passed. His appeal is pending before the Supreme Court.