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PESHAWAR: Investigators have fixed responsibility regarding illegal use of mobile phones by Dr Shakil Afridi on two security guards of the Peshawar Central Prison.
Official sources told The News that finally two security guards of Dr Shakil Afridi were found guilty after investigation by an intelligence agency and the police.
However, both the prison cops Khalil and Asif Mughal, hailing from Dera Ismail Khan, are under suspension as the authorities have yet to decide their fate. The remaining four guards were restored on their duties in other places of the prison after being found innocent in the case.
The sources said the abovementioned cops were first taken into custody by an intelligence agency for undergoing interrogation and “now they are present at the Peshawar Central Prison but their movement has been restricted inside the prison.”
It was learnt that recently in the same case the deputy superintendent of the prison, Maqsood Khan, was transferred to the Swabi District Prison.
The sources close to the investigation process said the convicted Dr Shakil Afridi had used his SIM card for making about 13 calls from his place of detention. He is reported to have made about 58 national and international calls.
The Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency unearthed the telephone calls’ case after the American TV channel, Fox News claimed that its correspondent had conducted more than 40-minute interview of Dr Shakil Afridi from the prison.
First the media had reported the recovery of satellite phone from Dr Shakil Afridi, but later officials clarified that no satellite phone had been recovered from the convicted doctor.
They said they only recovered his SIM card, which he had used in the phones of the cops guarding him. It has been learnt that the jail authorities have withdrawn certain facilities from Dr Shakil Afridi, who has been in solitary confinement owing to security reasons after airing of his controversial interview by Fox News in September 2012. Since then the authorities placed ban on his meetings with his family members as well as his counsel.
The official said Dr Shakil Afridi had now been confined to a room located inside a small compound in the prison. “The authorities search his room regularly and watch his movement in the cell through CCTV so that he does not have any objectionable item including cellular phone with him,” he added.
When contacted, an official on duty in the prison expressed ignorance about hunger strike by Dr Shakil.Advocate Samiullah Afridi, counsel of Dr Shakil, said he had also heard about the hunger strike by his client.
Dr Shakil Afridi, the former Khyber Agency surgeon, was picked up by an intelligence agency in May last year on suspicion of helping the American CIA to trace Osama bin Laden by carrying out a fake vaccination campaign in Abbottabad.
However, he was not convicted on that charge. He was shifted to Peshawar Central Prison on May 23, 2012 after his conviction by the assistant political agent of Bara who sentenced him to 33 years in prison on different counts including conspiracy to wage war against Pakistan and having links with the outlawed, Mangal Bagh-led militant organisation, Lashkar-i-Islam.
Official sources told The News that finally two security guards of Dr Shakil Afridi were found guilty after investigation by an intelligence agency and the police.
However, both the prison cops Khalil and Asif Mughal, hailing from Dera Ismail Khan, are under suspension as the authorities have yet to decide their fate. The remaining four guards were restored on their duties in other places of the prison after being found innocent in the case.
The sources said the abovementioned cops were first taken into custody by an intelligence agency for undergoing interrogation and “now they are present at the Peshawar Central Prison but their movement has been restricted inside the prison.”
It was learnt that recently in the same case the deputy superintendent of the prison, Maqsood Khan, was transferred to the Swabi District Prison.
The sources close to the investigation process said the convicted Dr Shakil Afridi had used his SIM card for making about 13 calls from his place of detention. He is reported to have made about 58 national and international calls.
The Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency unearthed the telephone calls’ case after the American TV channel, Fox News claimed that its correspondent had conducted more than 40-minute interview of Dr Shakil Afridi from the prison.
First the media had reported the recovery of satellite phone from Dr Shakil Afridi, but later officials clarified that no satellite phone had been recovered from the convicted doctor.
They said they only recovered his SIM card, which he had used in the phones of the cops guarding him. It has been learnt that the jail authorities have withdrawn certain facilities from Dr Shakil Afridi, who has been in solitary confinement owing to security reasons after airing of his controversial interview by Fox News in September 2012. Since then the authorities placed ban on his meetings with his family members as well as his counsel.
The official said Dr Shakil Afridi had now been confined to a room located inside a small compound in the prison. “The authorities search his room regularly and watch his movement in the cell through CCTV so that he does not have any objectionable item including cellular phone with him,” he added.
When contacted, an official on duty in the prison expressed ignorance about hunger strike by Dr Shakil.Advocate Samiullah Afridi, counsel of Dr Shakil, said he had also heard about the hunger strike by his client.
Dr Shakil Afridi, the former Khyber Agency surgeon, was picked up by an intelligence agency in May last year on suspicion of helping the American CIA to trace Osama bin Laden by carrying out a fake vaccination campaign in Abbottabad.
However, he was not convicted on that charge. He was shifted to Peshawar Central Prison on May 23, 2012 after his conviction by the assistant political agent of Bara who sentenced him to 33 years in prison on different counts including conspiracy to wage war against Pakistan and having links with the outlawed, Mangal Bagh-led militant organisation, Lashkar-i-Islam.
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