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Karachi Central Jail is a prison in the city of Karachi in Sindh, Pakistan. It houses more than 5,000 prisoners including convicted terrorists[1] that include militants who attempted to assassinate President Musharraf[2]. In June 2006 the deputy chief of the jail, Amanullah Khan Niazi, was killed along with three policemen and a civilian bystander when assailants on motorcycles open fired in a busy street[3]. The year before his assassination Niazi spoke of an attack against him in an interview to a PBS reporter
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When I met with the jail's superintendent, Amanullah Khan Niazi, he showed me his badly scarred arm. Last year, while Niazi was on a routine walk through the cellblocks, a militant threw boiling water mixed with sulphuric acid on him. Niazi was lucky to escape with only a burned arm. "These people are not scared at all," said Niazi. "They are capable of building bombs with sugar, fertilizer and some chemicals, and they are convinced that their ideology will lead them to heaven."[1] |
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Niazi had also said regarding efforts to rehabilitate the prisoners
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We have tried our best to convince them to change their ways .... but they tell us that they will fight until they die and that they will get new recruits in the process. These are very dangerous people."[1] |
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