Central Jail Rawalpindi (also slanged as Adyala jail by local residents of surrounding rural area) is a prominent jail in Rawalpindi

Rawalpindi

Rawalpindi , locally known as Pindi, is a city in the Pothohar region of Pakistan near Pakistan's capital city of Islamabad, in the province of Punjab. Rawalpindi is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad...

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Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

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History

The Central Jail Rawalpindi was constructed in between late 1970s and early 1980s during the military regime of General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, after hanging to death of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the ex-Prime Minister of Pakistan

Prime Minister of Pakistan

The Prime Minister of Pakistan , is the Head of Government of Pakistan who is designated to exercise as the country's Chief Executive. By the Constitution of Pakistan, Pakistan has the parliamentary democratic system of government...

 on 4 April 1979 in District Jail Rawalpindi

District Jail Rawalpindi

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....

. The latter jail was demolished and converted in to a public park. The Jail is situated on Rawalpindi - Adyala Road near village Dahgal about 13 kilometres toward west of District Courts and the defunct / demolished old District Jail Rawalpindi

District Jail Rawalpindi

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....

. The village Adyala (with whose relation the Jail is slanged as Adyala Jail) is located about 4 kilometres west of the Jail.

Notable prisoners

• Erik Audé
  Erik Audé
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• Yusuf Raza Gillani Released on 7 October 2006
• Mirza Tahir Hussain
  Mirza Tahir Hussain
  Mirza Tahir Hussain is a British man released on 17 November 2006 after spending 18 years on death row in Pakistan for the murder of a taxicab driver named Jamshed Khan in 1988, a crime which he says he committed in self-defence, as Khan pulled out a gun and tried to sexually assault him. In the...
  
   Released on 17 November 2006.

See also

• Government of Punjab, Pakistan
• Punjab Prisons (Pakistan)
  Punjab Prisons (Pakistan)
  The Punjab Prisons are responsible for custody, control, care and correction of prisoners confined in various Central, District and Special Jails in the province of Punjab .-History:...
  
  
• Prison Officer
  Prison officer
  A prison officer , also referred to as a corrections officer , correctional officer , or detention officer , is a person charged with the responsibility of the supervision, safety and security of prisoners in a prison, jail, or similar form of secure...
  
  
• Headquarter Jail
  Headquarter Jail
  The term Headquarter Jail or Headquarter Prison means one of the Jails in a Circle in any province of Pakistan, whose Superintendent or Officer-in-Charge is assigned with the administrative and financial powers of appointment, transfer and promotion of warders for all jails falling in the said...
  
  
• National Academy for Prisons Administration
  National Academy for Prisons Administration
  National Academy for Prisons Administration formerly known as Central Jail Staff Training Institute is a Federal Government's training institute for prison staff of all four provinces of Pakistan. It operates under Ministry of Interior, Government of Pakistan...