Central Jail, Dera Ghazi Khan

Last updated

Central Jail Dera Ghazi Khan
Pakistan location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Location in Pakistan
Location Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan
Coordinates 33°29′14.62″N73°2′24.49″E / 33.4873944°N 73.0401361°E / 33.4873944; 73.0401361
Security classMaximum
Capacity710
Population1040 [1] (as of 8 January 2014)
Opened1913
Managed byGovernment of Punjab, Pakistan
DirectorZubair Cheema, Superintendent of Jail [2]
Website prisons.punjab.gov.pk/central_jail_dera_ghazi_khan

Central Jail Dera Ghazi Khan is a historic jail of Pakistan. Imran Khan spent several months in this jail during General Musharraf's rule.

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Imran Khan</span> Former Pakistani cricketer and former prime minister (born 1952)

Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi is a Pakistani politician and former cricketer who served as the 22nd prime minister of Pakistan from August 2018 until April 2022. He is the founder and former chairman of the political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) from 1996 to 2023. He was the captain of the Pakistan national cricket team throughout the 1980s and early 1990s.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf</span> Political party in Pakistan

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf is a political party in Pakistan established in 1996 by Pakistani cricketer and politician Imran Khan, who served as the country's prime minister from 2018 to 2022. The PTI ranks among the three major Pakistani political parties alongside the Pakistan Muslim League–Nawaz (PML–N) and the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), and it is the largest party in terms of representation in the National Assembly of Pakistan since the 2018 general election. With over 10 million members in Pakistan and abroad, it claims to be the country's largest political party by primary membership, as well as one of the largest political parties in the world.

Amir Abdullah Khan Rokhri was a politician and was actively involved in the Pakistan Movement.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Punjab Prisons (Pakistan)</span> Pakistani correctional organization

The Punjab Prisons is a correctional organization, a uniformed service and an attached department of the provincial Home Department in Punjab, Pakistan. The organization works under administrative control of the Additional Chief Secretary Home to Government of the Punjab, Pakistan. Functional head of the organization is Inspector General of Prisons who manages 69 prisons in the province. The organization is responsible for custody, control, care and correction of prisoners confined in various central, district and special jails in the province of Punjab, Pakistan).

Central Jail Rawalpindi is a prominent prison in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Central Jail Faisalabad</span> Jail in Faisalabad, Pakistan

Central Jail Faisalabad is a jail in Faisalabad, Pakistan located on Jaranwala road nearly 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) east of Faisalabad city.

Kot Lakhpat Jail, officially known as Central Jail Lahore, is a prison located at Rakh Chandra in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.

Central Jail Mianwali is an old and historical jail in Mianwali, Punjab, Pakistan located on Rawalpindi road nearly 8 kilometers away from Mianwali city. It is noted for housing a number of prominent prisoners, the most notable of these being Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman during the Bangladesh Liberation War.

District Jail Jhelum is a prominent jail in Jhelum, Pakistan. It is one of the oldest jails in Pakistan which is used for prisoners of Jhelum and Chakwal.

New Central Jail Bahawalpur is a jail in Bahawalpur, Pakistan located on Jail Road nearly one kilometer toward east of the Radio Pakistan Bahawalpur. In September 2006, four members of the same family, including one father, his two sons and one brother, were hanged to death in this jail. The jail has been declared as Model Jail by the Government of the Punjab, Home Department in the year 2010.

Central Jail Gujranwala is an ancient Jail situated in Gujranwala, Pakistan.

District Jail Lahore is an ancient Jail situated on Ferozepur Road in Lahore, Pakistan. Previously, it had been an open jail and referred to as Camp Jail.

District Jail Sheikhupura is an old Jail situated in Sheikhupura, Punjab, Pakistan.

District Jail Kasur is an old jail in Kasur, Punjab, Pakistan.

District Jail Sialkot is an old Jail situated in Sialkot, Pakistan.

Borstal Institution & Juvenile Jail Bahawalpur is the Old Central Jail situated near Fareed Gate in Bahawalpur, Pakistan.

District Jail Gujrat is an old jail situated in Gujrat, Pakistan. A major portion of the jail consists of cell blocks.

District Jail Multan is an old district jail in Multan, Pakistan.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mehmood-ur-Rasheed</span> Pakistani politician

Mian Mehmood ur Rashid is a Pakistani politician from Lahore who was the Provincial Minister of Punjab for Housing, Urban Development and Public Health Engineering, in office from 27 August 2018 till 28 March 2022. He had been a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab from August 2018 to January 2023. Previously he was a Member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab from 1988 to 1993 and again from May 2013 to May 2018. He served as Leader of Opposition in the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab from June 2013 to May 2018. He is a senior member of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, a party which he joined in 1997, one year after its founding.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Omer Sarfraz Cheema</span> Pakistani politician (born 1969)

Omar Sarfraz Cheema is a Pakistani politician who has been a founding member of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). He served as the Governor of Punjab for a little over a month, from 3 April 2022 till 10 May 2022 amidst the 2022 Constitutional crisis in Punjab, Pakistan. On advice of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif he was removed as Governor and ceased to hold office on 10 May 2024. Cheema was replaced by Muhammad Baligh Ur Rehman on 30 May 2022, despite resistance from the President of Pakistan, Arif Alvi. Alvi conceded and approved the replacement of Cheema. He has been held in prison since 2023 in alleged relation to the May 9 riots and has been incarcerated while being denied proper facilities while imprisoned.

References

  1. Official Website of Punjab Prisons (Pakistan) Archived March 26, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  2. "Did I just see you hug and kiss a murderer? | Let Us Build Pakistan". criticalppp.com. Archived from the original on 8 January 2011. Retrieved 6 June 2022.