No! Re-e-e-e-e-ally?
Danyor Station House Officer Ghulaam Muhammad and one of the runaway prisoners were maimed after police encircled them in Minwar town, 13km from the jail, but the runaways still managed to escape.Imagine that.
Gilgit-Baltistan police chief Zaffar Iqbal Awan told Dawn that police and other security forces had launched a search operation on Friday evening after receiving an intelligence tip and a clash took place in a hilly area near Minwar.
"Cop shoppe!"
"Lissen, dis is Mahmoud da Weasel! Da guyz yer lookin' for is hid out in da hilly area near Minwar!"
He said police had sealed off roads near a river, but the besieged prisoners jumped into a ditch and escaped.
"Chaudry, you got the ditch covered?"
"Don't have to, chief! They'd never jump in there [SPLASH!]"
He said the SHO and one of the runaways were maimed in the encounter.
"Ow! My arm!"
"Ow! My leg!"
The official said police had found some drugs, dates and other items left by the fleeing prisoners.
"Dates, Legume?"
"Dates, Inspector!"
"Hmmm... You realize what that means?"
"What?"
"Look for a dark-haired woman between five feet five and five feet six with brown hair, wearing a plaid dress who speaks with a lisp, in Padi, Thalichi or Diamer district!"
He said the search operation had been extended to Padi, Thalichi and areas bordering Diamer district.
It was the dates that gave 'em away.
Mr Awan said police were checking medical stores and private hospitals in the area to trace the injured prisoner.
"Yeah, doc! He'd be with a woman in a plaid dress. And, oh yeah! There's a hole in him!"
He conceded that the jailbreak attempt by four prisoners had been assisted by some members of the security staff within the prison, but said an investigation was under way.
"We shall root out the miscreants, you betcha!"
He said seven jail staff personnel and three religious leaders had been enjugged.
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
Gilgit cantonment police started the paperwork but haven't done much else against Tanzeem Alfaroqia
Never heard of them before this incident. Neither has Google.
leaders Mir Baz, Jamshid and Inaam and Gilgit Jail wardens Akbar Zaman and Musa Alam, head constable Saifuddin, dispenser Aziz, constable Mohammad Afzal and Frontier Constabulary's constable Arif and obtained their physical remand for seven days from an anti-terrorism court.
Heh heh! They'll never suspect it was me!
"Stick 'em up, constable!"
A joint investigation team is dealing with the case under the supervision of Home Secretary Sibtain Ahmed.
"Defer! Defer! To the Lord High Supervisor!"
POLICE INVESTIGATION: According to initial police investigation, 102 prisoners, including 25 sentenced to death by ATCs, were in the prison at the time of the jailbreak.
"How many we got left, Chaudry?"
"Hmmm... I'd have to do a headcount to give you an exact number, chief!"
"About how many, then?"
"None."
They included four men involved in the killings near Nanga Parbat of foreign tourists and their guide and two in the liquidation of SSP Hilal Khan and two army officers in Diamer.
Hazrat Bilal, Dilbar Khan, Liaqat and Habibul Rahman of Diamer were kept in barrack-6. The investigation showed that the four prisoners made a plan to flee on Thursday evening with the help of some members of the security staff.
Their barrack was locked but it had been opened on Friday morning to let them flee. Under the jail rules, the gate may be opened for high-profile prisoners only after permission from the jail superintendent and they may be taken out in case of an emergency with handcuffs, amid tight security.
The investigation also revealed that pistols had been provided to the prisoners from within the jail. The prisoners went to the jail mosque and entered the dispensary after breaking a window. From the dispensary they went to the western side of the jail near the boundary wall. The prisoners scaled the 14-foot wall and jumped onto the Riverview Road at about 2.30am without facing resistance.
When they came to the road, coppers on patrol tried to intercept them, but they opened fire. Police killed Bilal and injured Dilbar in the clash, while Liaqat and Habib fled. The body and the injured prisoner were taken to the Kashorat hospital.
Initial reports said the jail security had been enhanced after a decision to transfer major cases of terrorism to military courts and personnel of Gilgit-Baltistan Scouts, Frontier Constabulary and police were on duty at the time.
Interestingly, Chief Secretary Sikandar Sultan Raja suspended Prisons Inspector General Muhammad Faisal who had himself taken the same action earlier against a deputy superintendent, an assistant superintendent, a head warden and two wardens after the incident.