District Jail Rawalpindi

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District Jail Rawalpindi
Location Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Status Not Operational
Security class Maximum
Opened 1900
Closed 1986
Managed by Government of the Punjab, Home Department
Notable prisoners
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Executed on 4 April 1979

District Jail Rawalpindi had been a prominent jail in Rawalpindi, Pakistan located near District Courts of Rawalpindi city. The Jail was inherited by the Punjab Prisons Department besides 18 other Jails after independence.

On 4 April 1979, the former President and Prime Minister of Pakistan, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was hanged to death in this Jail. The buildings were soon demolished and the Jail land was converted into a public park. A new Jail was then constructed on Adyala Road nearly 13 kilometres away from the District Courts which was named Central Jail Rawalpindi.

Some activists of the political party founded by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto i.e. Pakistan Peoples Party believe that the District Jail Rawalpindi was demolished during the military regime only to get rid of remains of Bhutto i.e. his death cell, execution gallows and such memorable articles which the party could use to gain sympathies of the world at large and to launch effective political campaign against Zia-ul-Haq.

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    Prisons in Pakistan
    Punjab
    Sindh
    • Central Prison Karachi
    • Central Jail Hyderabad
    • Juvenile Jail Dadu
    • Central Jail Sukkhar
    • District Jail Benazirabad
    Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
    Baluchistan
    • Central Jail Mach
    • District Jail Quetta

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