Of these 14, seven have been awarded the death sentence for various terrorist activities such as the attack on former president
Pervez PervMusharraf
... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ...
, suicide kaboom on Pakistain Ordnance Factories, attack on former governor Punjab Salman Taseer and others.
Due to the presence of high profile prisoners and continuous threats of attack by the proscribed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), army authorities and security agencies are reviewing the security of the jail on a daily basis.
A police official, while citing intelligence agencies, said Adnan Rashid, a Taliban capo who had been freed from the Bannu Jail by snuffies in 2012, had threatened an assault on Adiala jail similar to the one on Dera Ismail Khan
... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
Prison in July 2013. During the assault, a large number of TTP snuffies had been freed.
This threat has forced the army, district police and prison authorities to hold emergency sessions to review security of the heavily-guarded Adiala jail which houses 67 notorious prisoners in addition to approximately 5,000 others.
A list of the major 14 convicted terrorists, their crimes and their punishments is provided in the table.
The remaining 53 high profile prisoners languishing in Adiala Central Jail are under trial for terrorist activities such as the Mumbai attacks in 2008, liquidation of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto
... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in...
in 2007, attack on NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
oil tankers in March 2010, Inspector Raja Saqlain murder case and recovery of explosives in Rawalpindi and Islamabad between 2008 and 2013.
Similarly, seven prisoners are under trial for the Bhara Kahu suicide attack, one for the murder of FIA prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar and two suspects in the Pir Chumbal blast in Choa Saidan Shah in November 2011.
Among these 53 under-trial prisoners, 34 are being tried inside the jail premises by the Anti-Terrorism Court while the remaining prisoners are being tried by the same court outside the premises.