PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has constituted a high-level investigative committee to probe into the incident of terrorist attack in Dera Ismail Khan’s central jail and ordered the committee to submit its report within 15 days.
About 30 militants and more than 200 other inmates escaped from the DI Khan’s central jail after a squad of highly trained Taliban fighters armed with grenade launchers and dressed as police overran the facility on Monday night.
The investigative committee, headed by senior member of Board of Revenue Waqar Ayub, will also comprise Special Secretary Home and Tribal Affairs Syed Alamgir Shah, Additional Inspector General (Special Branch) KP Syed Akhtar Ali Shah and the nominee of 11 Corps Headquarters Peshawar.
The committee has been tasked to probe the incident and submit its report within 15 days in order to identify loopholes which led to the happening.
