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| Sindh govt to install cellphone jammers in jails soon |
| 2013-12-26 |
| [DAWN] In a long-delayed move, the Sindh government will start installing mobile phone jammers in all seven prisons of the province within the next week after the federal government and intelligence agencies gave a go-ahead to the Rs80 million project, it emerged on Wednesday. A bigwig confirmed to Dawn that federal institutions including the ministry of IT and telecom and the Pakistain Telecommunication Authority (PTA) had approved the provincial government's proposal to install jammers. "A team of defence production ministry recently completed its survey in this regard and we expect the jammers will be installed anytime soon over the next week," Sindh additional chief secretary of home Syed Mumtaz Ali Shah told Dawn. "The Sindh government has allocated Rs80 million for the project and set up a committee with the IG prisons as its head to execute and supervise the project. It will be launched simultaneously in all seven prisons," he said. He said the project was part of the government's long-term plan to put in place maximum checks on the jail inmates and finally ban use of mobile phone. The project for installation of jammers would be completed within a few weeks, he said. |
| Posted by:Fred |