{"id":54829,"date":"2014-10-13T16:15:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T13:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=54829"},"modified":"2014-10-13T16:15:50","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T13:15:50","slug":"pakistan-troops-foil-jail-break-bid-54829","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/pakistan-troops-foil-jail-break-bid-54829\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan troops foil jail break bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_54830\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54830\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-54830\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Central-Jail-Karachi-Pakistan-Nationalturk-13-480x360.jpg\" alt=\"Troops guarding Central Jail, Karachi in Pakistan. 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File Pic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Troops in Pakistan have foiled jail break attempt by detecting a 40-metre-long tunnel central a prison in port city of Karachi.<\/h1>\n<p>Islamabad, Oct 13\/Nationalturk \u2013 Pakistan troops foiled a jail break attempt by detecting a 40-metre-long tunnel under a nearby house in port city of Karachi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPakistan border guards (Rangers) men managed to detect and discover an underground tunnel being built inside a house in Ghosia Colony \u2014 an impoverished locality near the Central Jail, Karachi,\u201d Pakistan Rangers official, Colonel Tahir Mehmood told reporters today.<\/p>\n<p>He said the security men were able to detect the tunnel after receiving information from intelligence agencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe house was bought by the suspects about five to six months ago and we have information about the identity of the seller,\u201d he said adding the suspects most likely got help from inside the prison.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Some persons detained\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Colonel Tahir said some persons have been arrested and soon the whole group involved in constructing the tunnel would be arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said seven people involved in the plot to breach the prison have been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>He said 45 metres of tunnel had already been dug, whereas at least 55 metres were required to enter the Central Jail premises.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe men, who were detained and interrogated, revealed that a tunnel was being dug to enter directly into the jail,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<p>Colonel Tahir said the tunnel \u00a0was aimed at leading directly into the jail barracks where high-value targets are being held.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe latest equipment was used to dig the tunnel,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Asia News<strong>\/ NationalTurk Pakistan\u00a0News<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troops in Pakistan have foiled jail break attempt by detecting a 40-metre-long tunnel central a prison in port city of Karachi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,1,118,101,14],"tags":[74110,54358,74112,56528,58579,50476,74109,11703,636,48773,74108,62536,11551,13856,74111],"class_list":["post-54829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-politics","category-world","tag-attempt","tag-central-jail","tag-colonel-tahir-mehmood","tag-foiled","tag-ghosia-colony","tag-intelligence-agencies","tag-jail-break","tag-karachi","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistan-rangers","tag-pakistan-troops","tag-port-city","tag-prison","tag-suspects","tag-tunnel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}