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| Top officials suspended over Bannu jailbreak |
| 2012-05-18 |
| [Dawn] The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... government has ordered suspension of 27 officials including senior officers, prison staff, paramilitary soldiers and coppers on charges of negligence during the Bannu jailbreak incident. Addressing a presser here on Wednesday, Minister for Information Mian Iftikhar Hussain said that the decision was taken in the light of findings of an inquiry, initiated soon after the incident on April 15. "The committee held civil administration, prison department, law enforcement agencies and intelligence agencies responsible for the biggest prison attack in the country's history," he said. The provincial cabinet in a special meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti, ordered suspension of the officers and recommended departmental inquiries against them. "Today, all these officials have been made officers on special duty (OSDs) and from tomorrow the departments concerned would issue their suspension orders," the minister said, adding that the employees of federal government would be dealt with by their respective departments. Mr Hussain mentioned names of 27 officials, who were suspended and said that coppers and paramilitary deployed at three main cop shoppes and checkposts in the area had also been made OSDs. He said that departmental inquiries would be conducted against those officers and final report would be presented to the chief minister within 20 days. |
| Posted by:Fred |