PESHAWAR - Pakistani security forces again be bothered by Taliban militants . A large-scale attack in Dera Ismail Khan city jail , southwestern Pakistan , managed to free nearly 250 inmates . A number of hard-line militant leaders also escaped in an attack that killed 13 people .
Around 70 Taliban militants armed with guns , mortars , grenade launchers , and bombs stormed a prison in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa . Gunfire with prison guards lasted three hours before hundreds of prisoners were freed .
They can be easily ambushed police who were on duty at the jail . The incident occurred just a few hours later before local authorities started holding elections to replace President Asif Ali Zardari .
To note , Zardari party lost the elections in May and boycott the presidential election yesterday ( 30/7 ) . The boycott had a winning Mamnoon Hussain , a close ally of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif .
At least 248 prisoners escaped . Six of them were arrested again . In addition , five women inmates and a policewoman taken away the Taliban . Mushtaq Jadoon , a senior provincial official , told ARY television said 30 people among those who fled are militant extremists .
Central jail in Dera Ismail Khan could hold up to 5,000 inmates . About 300 people of whom was jailed associated with cases of attacks on security forces and sectarian conflict . However , the number of inmates at the location when the attack happened Monday night ( 29/7 ) and it ended early yesterday ( 30/7 ) is uncertain .
City of Dera Ismail Khan in Khyber Pakhtinkhwa are semiautonomous regions near the Afghan border . Ie , where the Taliban hold the resistance associated with the Al Qaeda network is very active .
The jail broken after more than a thousand prisoners , and most of the regular criminal escaped from a prison in Benghazi , Libya , after the riots on Saturday ( 27/7 ) . Last week, militants also attacked two prisons in Iraq and freed 500 prisoners . Armed militants bomb , mortar , and rifle attack that killed 40 people in north and west of Baghdad .
Pakistan Taliban , which led domestic insurgency since 2007 , claimed responsibility for the attack . " About 150 Taliban , including 60 suicide bombers , attacked the central jail and freed about 300 people , " said Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid told AFP by telephone .
Attacks by armed groups trained , disguised in a police uniform is , increasingly raising concerns about the ability of the Taliban to operate without ever being touched by the law in some parts of the nuclear- armed country
Around 70 Taliban militants armed with guns , mortars , grenade launchers , and bombs stormed a prison in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa . Gunfire with prison guards lasted three hours before hundreds of prisoners were freed .
They can be easily ambushed police who were on duty at the jail . The incident occurred just a few hours later before local authorities started holding elections to replace President Asif Ali Zardari .
To note , Zardari party lost the elections in May and boycott the presidential election yesterday ( 30/7 ) . The boycott had a winning Mamnoon Hussain , a close ally of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif .
At least 248 prisoners escaped . Six of them were arrested again . In addition , five women inmates and a policewoman taken away the Taliban . Mushtaq Jadoon , a senior provincial official , told ARY television said 30 people among those who fled are militant extremists .
Central jail in Dera Ismail Khan could hold up to 5,000 inmates . About 300 people of whom was jailed associated with cases of attacks on security forces and sectarian conflict . However , the number of inmates at the location when the attack happened Monday night ( 29/7 ) and it ended early yesterday ( 30/7 ) is uncertain .
City of Dera Ismail Khan in Khyber Pakhtinkhwa are semiautonomous regions near the Afghan border . Ie , where the Taliban hold the resistance associated with the Al Qaeda network is very active .
The jail broken after more than a thousand prisoners , and most of the regular criminal escaped from a prison in Benghazi , Libya , after the riots on Saturday ( 27/7 ) . Last week, militants also attacked two prisons in Iraq and freed 500 prisoners . Armed militants bomb , mortar , and rifle attack that killed 40 people in north and west of Baghdad .
Pakistan Taliban , which led domestic insurgency since 2007 , claimed responsibility for the attack . " About 150 Taliban , including 60 suicide bombers , attacked the central jail and freed about 300 people , " said Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid told AFP by telephone .
Attacks by armed groups trained , disguised in a police uniform is , increasingly raising concerns about the ability of the Taliban to operate without ever being touched by the law in some parts of the nuclear- armed country
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