Taliban Prisone Break

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  Fearing Jailbreak, Pakistan Province Shifts High Profile Prisoners

  Fearing a possible jail break, Pakistan's provincial government of Balochistan has shifted 24 high profile prisoners to Central Jail Mach from District Jail Quetta.

• Took a month to plan jail attack, spent 1 crore: Pakistan Taliban

  A day after the Taliban freed over 250 prisoners from a high-security Pakistani prison, a top commander of the terror outfit has said they took a month to plan the assault and spent Rs one crore to execute it with military-like precision.

• Taliban free nearly 250 in Pakistan jail break

  Dozens of heavily armed Taliban fighters freed nearly 250 prisoners, including hardcore militants, during a sophisticated overnight attack on a Pakistani jail that killed 13 people, officials said today.

• Over 140 who fled Pakistan prison back in jail

  As many as 143 of the 384 inmates who fled a prison in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province following an audacious Taliban attack are back in jail, an official said.

• Taliban are contract killers: Rehman Malik

  Terming Sunday's jail attack in Pakistan as a "pre-planned conspiracy", Pakistan's Interior minister Rehman Malik Monday said the Taliban were "contract killers" but called themselves "Muslims". An audacious Taliban attack on the Bannu jail in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province freed 384 prisoners Sunday. The interior minister termed the attack as a pre...

• Interpol issues global alert for Taliban fugitives

  Interpol has issued a worldwide alert for 417 fugitives of an Afghan jailbreak, including Taliban considered "a major threat to global security."The France-based international police agency says it has issued a so-called Orange Notice for the fugitives who escaped the Sarposa prison in Kandahar on April 24.Authorities in Afghanistan had said more t...

• Taliban insurgents escape Kandahar prison, says Afghan govt

  Afghan officials say more than 400 inmates have escaped from the main prison in Kandahar city. They say many of the men who dug a tunnel out of the facility are Taliban insurgents.Prison supervisor Ghulam Dastagir Mayar said Monday that they estimate about 476 prisoners escaped through a tunnel they had dug to the outside. He says the jailbreak hap...