Activists of banned militant organisation Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) are conspiring for the release of their imprisoned colleagues from various jails through violent means, according to intelligence reports submitted to the Interior Ministry. Daily Times has learnt that the intelligence reports revealed that SSP leaders have directed the organisationÂ’s district presidents to tell their jailed colleagues to create trouble in jails. The intelligence reports said that SSP presidents of southern Punjab districts, Lahore, Gujranwala, Karachi, Sukkur and Dera Ismail Khan have been directed to help their jailed comrades escape from police custody on their way from jails to courts.
Sources told Daily Times that 48 SSP activists have been imprisoned at Adyala Jail and eight of them are on death row. Most of the SSP activists have been detained in LahoreÂ’s Kot Lakhpat Jail, the Bahawalpur Central Jail and jails in Karachi, the sources said. The sources said that the National Crisis Management Cell had directed the provincial authorities of the Prisons Department to stay vigilant and foil any escape attempt by the sectarian activists.