DI Khan central jail under attack !

[batmannow]

after watching this clip its conformed they succed in releasing there wanted commanders. they used night vision .... and look at the funding they had spent 1 cror rs. for this attack. and our agencies took it lightly. cause they new it but still they were unable to protect the jail.

its not agencies, its the fedrl & provincial govts, which cant speak a single word against TTP?

 

[Major Sam]

after watching this clip its conformed they succed in releasing there wanted commanders. they used night vision .... and look at the funding they had spent 1 cror rs. for this attack. and our agencies took it lightly. cause they new it but still they were unable to protect the jail.

can you post its link or youtube link as i cant see video?

 

[Patriots]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=568984806473349

 

[Ganymede]

The Pakistani establishment has been caught with its pants down yet again. One thought they would have learnt their lesson after the countless fiasco's in the recent past PAF Faisal, Bannu jail et.al) but i guess not. Throws the whole notion of a single good kick up ones back side is all that is needed to fix a situation out the window because if that was indeed the case, we would've surely seen some improvement by now. The less said about the government the better, it's blatant disregard for the well being of Pakistan and its people is disgusting.

One cannot help but lament the abysmal state of the Policing system in Pakistan. I don't know what catastrophe would triger its restructuring because so far, it has proven to be a colossal failure and incapable of dealing with threats unless of course its preying on the poor. If you want to call the army and the paramilitary forces for everything then why even keep a police force? get rid of the entire department and invest that money in an institution that can actually perform the job that is required. I really don't begrudge the poor saps for not being able to hold back the onslaught;after all, What other outcome can one envision when a guy equipped with an antiquated AK goes up against someone wielding the bigger guns? And incarcerating known terrorists next to a supposedly lawless region, what is the deal with that?

As things stand, we have Multi Billion Dollars worth of equipment destroyed, 50 thousand dead and countless escaped terrorists and yet there is no accountability. I am willing to bet good money that after the ever so familiar monotonous cycle of commissions, reports, briefings and the blame games, no concrete steps will be taken to avert such a situation from ever arising again as for that to happen, heads need to roll and that my friends, is a non starter in the Land of the Pure. So when everything is said and done, we have 250 additional scumbags gunning for us with renewed zeal attributing to their new found freedom as divine intervention. What a farce!

 

[Jzaib]

if PTI boycoted the dam fake election drama, non of these massive croupters would be in power?
it didnt happened cause, IK was so dam sure of his win, thus was selfish enough to put whole nation, on the sale?
well, what is todays statment by IK on the incident? nothing? right?
i hve my mind, to start my battles with whom ever , i found guilty against the state of pakistan, read my older threads & older posts!

i have notice arguing with u is useless .. If imran khan would have boycoted the election ..Nothng would have happened ..Imran has boycoted last election ..did it made any difference ... did u start supporting him . NO right? so what is the difference it would have made now ? People supported him bcoz they wanted him to take part in election not to boycot ever election ...

IK has given enough statments on various issues ..u never looked at that? u will always find a way to hate him no matter what he do

 

[Roybot]

Jailbreak: it wasn't an intelligence failure for once - DAWN.COM

IF it was for intelligence information, Dera Ismail Khan’s Central Prison debacle should not have happened.

On July 27, a letter marked “secret” and “most immediate” by the country’s intelligence agency addressed to the commissioner, deputy commissioner, deputy inspector general of police, district police officer and the superintendent of Dera Ismail Khan central jail, stated: “It has been reliably learnt that miscreants namely Umer Khitab and his associates affiliated with Gandapur Group/TTP are planning to carry out terrorist attack against Central Jail – Dera Ismail Khan on the pattern similar to Bannu jailbreak in near future. According to information, miscreants are in possession of sketch/map of Jail and have reached in the vicinity of Dera Ismail Khan for this purpose.”

The letter went out the day skirmishes broke out inside the prison between prisoners and guards, which say some security officials, was probably the day the attack could have been launched.

To ensure that the letter reached its destination, properly signed receipts were also obtained from offices of the respective officers mentioned in the letter.

The warning was followed by another demarche to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa the following day, on July 28, from the National Crisis Management Cell, Ministry of Interior, Islamabad. The letter marked “secret” and “most immediate” “Threat Alert 699” said: “It has been learnt through reliable source that Umer Khitab, along with TTP elements, are planning to carry out Bannu jailbreak-like attack on Dera Ismail Khan Central Prison and for this purpose, the group has reached the vicinity of Dera Ismail Khan.”

The letter went to the KP Home Secretary, Peshawar, Provincial Police Officer, Additional Chief Secretary Fata, Inspector General of Frontier Corps, Inspector General, Prison, KP and Commandant Frontier Constabulary, KP, Peshawar.

To reinforce the urgency of the matter further, officers were again warned through text messages on Sunday to take appropriate security measures. As a consequence, civil and military officers visited the prison to work out a security plan. The home secretary followed up on the threat.

On July 29, hours before the most audacious attack on the prison located in the middle of a populated area, the Dera commissioner held a conference of all law-enforcement agencies and the civil administration to discuss the issue.

The intelligence was not merely confined to information about gathering of militants in Dera. The administration was warned that militants would be launching a three-pronged attack from Sabzi Mandi, Girls Degree College and Town Hall where they parked their 14 vehicles.

Also, the administration was told that militants might blow up power transmission line to cause a blackout and they were in possession of night vision goggles.

Additionally, they were told that the convergence of hardcore militants in 12-A Barrack inside the prison was a recipe for disaster and that immediate steps be taken for their dispersal. As it happened, 105 jail guards and 75 men from the Frontier Reserve Police (FRP) were least prepared to forestall the ferocious attack with rocket-propelled grenades, time devices, other explosives and heavy firearms.

The attack took place at around 11.30pm and went on till 2am – three hours with one hour inside the jail compound. The militants equipped with megaphones called out names of their brothers-in-faith and broke open their cells with explosive devices, all the while raising slogans of Allah-o-Akbar and TTP Zindabad. Then they went on a slaughtering spree, beheading four inmates, taking away heads of two of them.

In all, by the last count, 248 prisoners have escaped, among them 30 hardcore militants, including Qari Asif and Khalil, the group involved in bombing in Dera Ismail Khan that had left 25 mourners dead on the ninth and tenth of Muharram last year.

Law-enforcement agencies scrambled and the army was called in but what they found in pitched darkness were bodies of the slain prison guards, slaughtered and beheaded inmates, a strong stench of explosives and smouldering lockups. The hundred or so militants, along with a horde of escaped prisoners, melted away amid the ensuing mayhem and confusion. The incident has thus become the biggest jailbreak in Pakistan’s history.

NO LESSONS LEARNT: That no lessons were learnt from the Bannu jailbreak hardly comes as a surprise. Pakistanis as a nation, it appears, never learn from history, but what boggles the mind is that the administration would take its time to prepare for an assault which, it thought would come at a time of their choosing, said one official. They were upstaged by militants.

The irony is, according to a senior official, the civil and military authorities had done mock exercises, assigned specific tasks and roles and worked out a clear standard operating procedure of who was to do what. “On paper everything was worked out meticulously to prepare for both day and night assault. It was a video game played out in real time,” the official said.

What seems more bizarre, the minutes of the meeting presided over by the commissioner were properly recorded. “Everybody had taken the threat alert seriously,” the official said.

Light machinegun-mounted armoured personnel carriers and mobiles of the Elite Police force were deployed and guards deployed on rooftops.

But what happened was even more unbelievable. When the attack came, the mobiles disappeared along with the Elite force which was to stop the assault. The district police officer went to seek help from the brigade commander, but neither showed up. “The gun was there, but there was no one to pull the trigger,” an official said.

There was no breach of wall of the prison. The main gate remains intact and the guard manning the gate told investigators that when he saw the militants blowing up the APC and when they approached the gate and ordered him to open it he had no option but to open it. The militants walked in, made announcements on the megaphones and took away their men.

And to cap it all, the statements of the KP chief minister and his hand-picked Information Minister Shaukat Yousafzai that no intelligence was shared with KP on the Dera jail assault were brazenly misleading and untrue. “We could not have been more specific,” said an angry security official. It was incompetence and lack of preparedness, he said.

The answer to Dera jail debacle was not setting up another intelligence agency within the police at a cost of Rs3 billion, as the PTI chairman said on Tuesday as clearly, the intelligence was there. It was a tactical failure.

The Elite Police which had been assigned the task to guard the prison in view of the intelligence did not respond when the attack came. Neither was this an intelligence failure nor coordination failure. It was a failure of nerves and it all boils down to one stark reality: cowardice.

No offence, but this is just plain embarrassing!

 

[Assault Rifle]

The attackers took one Female police personnel as well as two female prisoners with them.
They also took the heads of two Shia prisoners with them.

@Hyperion can you confirm this?

The attackers took one Female police personnel as well as two female prisoners with them.
They also took the heads of two Shia prisoners with them.

@Hyperion

 

[Hyperion]

Dude, I don't care anymore....... I think I'm gonna declare Army good for "raksha-bandhan" only. Saray kay saray choorian pehan kay beth jayen.

When we got squashed in 71, Kargil... there was no media. This time there is, they still don't get it.

The attackers took one Female police personnel as well as two female prisoners with them.
They also took the heads of two Shia prisoners with them.

@Hyperion can you confirm this?

The attackers took one Female police personnel as well as two female prisoners with them.
They also took the heads of two Shia prisoners with them.

@Hyperion

 

[Jango]

Jailbreak: it wasn't an intelligence failure for once - DAWN.COM



No offence, but this is just plain embarrassing!

It sure is embarrassing...it is down right pathetic.

Our police is good for absolutely nothing. The intel even gave the method of attack, place of attack, power outage and everything...how much more precise can it get?

And then to know that the police just backed off and opened the gate without any hesitation. The terrorists used NVG???

DSP, SP and 25 other officers suspended, IG Jails gonna be suspended soon too. The previous government gave IG Jails 38 crore to revamp the system, but he didn't. Blatant corruption.

BTW, who is Umar Khitab? Seems a familiar name, maybe some connection with the Justice Bakar case?

 

[Capt.Popeye]

Jailbreak: it wasn't an intelligence failure for once - DAWN.COM



No offence, but this is just plain embarrassing!

Only EMBARRASSING ??????

The attackers took one Female police personnel as well as two female prisoners with them.
They also took the heads of two Shia prisoners with them.

@Hyperion

Now, was the Prison being guarded by HIJRAS ?????
Even that gives Eunuchs a bad name, because History says that Eunuchs have been brave and efficient guards.

 

[Wright]

This was a pretty well executed operation. These guys can school the Syrian terrorists how to get stuff done.

 

[ice_man]

Imran doesn't wish to participate in APC then how can he complain of lack of failure to counter terrorism!

IMRAN MUST PARTICIPATE in APC inorder to get a proper anti terrorism policy!

 

[batmannow]

i have notice arguing with u is useless .. If imran khan would have boycoted the election ..Nothng would have happened ..Imran has boycoted last election ..did it made any difference ... did u start supporting him . NO right? so what is the difference it would have made now ? People supported him bcoz they wanted him to take part in election not to boycot ever election ...

IK has given enough statments on various issues ..u never looked at that? u will always find a way to hate him no matter what he do

thts the leadership problem , he is just doing wrong things on the wrong times?
as i always said, he is famous cricketing celebrity, a good man but not a politician. any way anyhow!
i think, thts enough,we belongs to 2 different worlds?
lets move on with our differences!

 

[notorious_eagle]

Jailbreak: it wasn't an intelligence failure for once - DAWN.COM

This is just fu**ing embarrassing, but not a surprise at all. Pakistan Police is as incompetent as they get, majority of the members are more interested in collecting their salaries rather than working for the welfare of the people. The Police Officers who are honest and want to make a difference, are usually transferred to the farthest corner of the country.

 

[Hyperion]

Yara, one question. If such detailed intel was available beforehand, then where was the Army? We know couple of things already:

1. Police is ill equipped.
2. In tactical (logistical) and training terms how can we compare a battle hardened TTP terrorist to the police force?
3. Police force simply doesn't have the numbers.

Now, we also know that D.I.Khan is a de facto war zone, along with the adjoining tribal areas, then the protection and all operations responsibility falls squarely into Army's lap.

Look...... you know what? They are also good for nothing. It's as simple as that. No questions about it, they need to be disbanded and need to go find work like rest of the population.

There needs to be some sort of auditing, just like another corporation, company etc etc.... thirty years and what are their recent achievements? Long time ago they used to feed the population horse manure, and everyone used to swallow it with "Pak Fauj Zindabad", guess what now? No, we are no more willing to do that. If they take USD 6 - 9 Billion / year, I NEED TO SEE TANGIBLE EVIDENCE for their right to exist. No more India *BS*, no more Israel *BS*, no more bullshit about any of those phantom threats. For all I care the holy-ghost can boo-ha us, it will still be better than the *BS* and excuses that we are fed by them.

It sure is embarrassing...it is down right pathetic.

Our police is good for absolutely nothing. The intel even gave the method of attack, place of attack, power outage and everything...how much more precise can it get?

And then to know that the police just backed off and opened the gate without any hesitation. The terrorists used NVG???

DSP, SP and 25 other officers suspended, IG Jails gonna be suspended soon too. The previous government gave IG Jails 38 crore to revamp the system, but he didn't. Blatant corruption.

BTW, who is Umar Khitab? Seems a familiar name, maybe some connection with the Justice Bakar case?