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PRISONS & PRISONERS IN PAKISTAN PRISONS
Under the 1962 West Pakistan Jail Warden Service Rules, prisons are managed by a career prison service, which sets qualifications for wardens, but these guidelines are reportedly not well observed. The service is organized by province under an inspector general of prisons. At division level, the senior official is the director of prisons, and there are jail superintendents at district and municipal levels. Simple lockups are maintained in some villages. There are some female wardens to handle female prisoners, but more are needed.

Prisons are not salubrious places. The common criminal from a poor background is assigned to Class C confinement, with virtually no amenities. Abuse is common. Prisoners of higher social status are assigned to Class B prisons, where conditions are better, and they can procure better food and some amenities from their own pocket. Class A prisons are for "prominent" offenders. Conjugal visits are not the rule but are allowed in some cases.

Juveniles are handled separately in both the court system and in confinement. The criminal code prescribes special courts for offenders under age fifteen unless they are charged with a particularly serious offense and a high court orders that they be tried before a regular sessions court. There are juvenile wards in regular jails for offenders up to age twenty-one. In addition, a few reform institutions for boys between eleven and twenty years of age attempt to rehabilitate young offenders.

The Pakistan Prisons Act of 1894 and the Prison Rules of Pakistan, both relics from the colonial era, permit the use of whipping as a punishment in prisons. They also permit the use of fetters and chains as instruments of restraint and punishment under certain conditions. The U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture, in his 1996 report on Pakistan, described the fetters used in Pakistan's prisons:

Bar fetters consist of iron rings locked around the ankles of prisoners; an iron bar is riveted to each of these iron shackles making an inverted "V". These two vertical bars are about 50 cm long and are linked at mid-thigh level by an iron ring which the prisoner must hold or which is connected to a rope or chain around the waist. The rods are of a standard length and, thus, men who are not of average height may suffer when the bars are too long or too short for them, thereby adding to the normal discomfort experienced in wearing bar fetters. The iron bars are about 1.2 cm in diameter and weigh, together with the ankle shackles, around 4 kg. Cross fetters are iron bars about 50 cm in length attached in addition to bar fetters and placed between the iron rings around the ankles keeping the prisoners' legs permanently apart at the bar's length.

PRISONERS IN PAKISTAN PRISONS
Please let us know if you have any information regarding any of the inmates listed below which can allow us to keep this page updated & current. Note: This list is not intended to be a complete listing of inmates. Some inmates do not wish to be listed as they do not want their cases to be public or want family membersor associates to know their situation, some simply wish to be forgotton.

If you know of a prisoner who needs contact please contact us here and send us the Inmates Name, Country of Origin, Age, date of birth, sentence, crime, date of release, time served, and any other information relivent to their case.

Prisoners in Pakistan Prisons
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Prisoner Name Age Date Imprisoned Charge
32 October 1996 Charged with Blasphemy but released Aug 2002
- August 2001 Muslim Physiology professor found guilty of blasphemy in lecture
- January 2001 Ahmadi businessman in detention pending trial for blasphemy
- October 2000 Pending appeal to High Court
31 February 1999 Arrested in Jhang near Faisalabad - February 4, 1999, for allegedly selling drugs. Was later accused of burning pages from the Koran. Local bishop says police officers failed to extort bribes from the two men fabricated the blasphemy charges. He was convicted and sentenced 25 years on March 21, 2001, by the Jhang Sessions Court. Their appeal has been pending before the Lahore High Court since April 2001. Amjad is married with four children. He is imprisoned in the Jhang District jail.
44 September 25, 2001 Detained at Gawal Mandi police station in Lahore accused of blasphemy. On July 18, 2002, he was sentenced to death by a court in Lahore, where he is imprisoned in Kot Lakhpat jail.
27 May 3, 2000 A young Christian man who converted to Islam to marry a Muslim girl. Now he is charged with blasphemy after he tried to return to his Christian faith. On June 29, 2002, the Faisalabad District and Sessions Court sentenced him to be hanged on charges of "slandering the Muslim prophet Mohammed."
30 February 4, 1999 Arrested in Jhang near Faisalabad for allegedly selling drugs, accused of burning some pages of the Koran in his cell. Local bishop says police officers failed to extort bribes from him fabricated the blasphemy charges. He was convicted and sentenced to 25 years of prison on March 21, 2001, by the Jhang Sessions Court. His appeal has been pending before the Lahore High Court since April 2001. Asif is unmarried. He is imprisoned in the Jhang District jail.
70 November 5, 1998 Accused of preparing a charm containing verses from the Koran to hang around a dog's neck. He was convicted on May 7, 2002, by the Faisalabad Sessions Court, which sentenced him to serve a double life-sentence in prison. The verdict is under appeal before the Lahore High Court. He is imprisoned in the Faisalabad Central jail.
37 April 1, 2001 Arrested in a village near Sialkot, Pervaiz Masih was accused of slandering Mohammed to several teenage Muslim boys he was tutoring several months earlier. A well-known high school principal, he has been refused bail, and the police did not complete their prosecution brief on his case until the first week of July 2002. He is being tried before the Daska Additional and Sessions Court. Unmarried, he remains imprisoned in the Daska jail.
56 May 8, 1998 Accused of throwing stones that damaged a shop sign on which was written a verse from the Koran. He was charged seven weeks later with blaspheming against Mohammed. Trial hearings on his case did not begin for another two years before the Faisalabad Sessions Court, which by June 2002 had yet to hear the defense side of the case. He is married with six children and several grandchildren. He is imprisoned in the Faisalabad Central jail.
26 June 4, 2001 Arrested near Faisalabad, Shahbaz Masih was accused of tearing up leaflets with verses from the Koran and desecrating the grave shrine of a local Muslim holy man. According to his family, the defendant is mentally unstable, having been admitted to a mental hospital twice in the past five years for treatment. Trial proceedings in his case began in June 2002. Unmarried, he is imprisoned without bail in the Faisalabad District jail.
- June 1999 Jailed without bail, Rasheed and Saleem Masih were accused of slandering the Muslim prophet Mohammed during an argument with an ice cream vendor. The incident occurred in the Pasrur region of northeastern Pakistan, when the Muslim vendor refused to serve the two Christians from the same bowls used by Muslims. They were given a life sentence for alleged blasphemy. Lahore-based Center for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS), said the long-delayed blasphemy case against the Masih brothers is fraught with blatant legal irregularities. Although the initial complaint to the police only reported a fistfight, when a formal accusation was filed six days later, the accuser claimed that the two had committed blasphemy. According to CLAAS investigators, however, the Muslim plaintiffs carried a grudge against the two brothers after losing a civil land dispute against them. Although litigation documents were submitted which proved one of the prosecution witnesses had lied about this to the court, the evidence was ignored in the lower court judgment. In terms of legal procedure, the brothers had been booked under Section 295-C of Pakistan's blasphemy law, which carries a mandatory death sentence for anyone convicted of slandering the prophet Mohammed. But inexplicably, the lower court judge in Pasrur who found them guilty sentenced them to 25 years in prison

Additional Sessions Court Judge Rana Mohammed Yousaf also tacked on another 10 years each for "insulting Islam" under Section 295-A. Since the law stipulates this accusation can only be tried in the country's Anti-Terrorist Courts, Judge Yousaf did not have any legal jurisdiction to rule on this statute

After being jailed for the first 18 months in Sialkot, the two Christians were then transferred to Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail while awaiting the appeal of their conviction. The two brothers escaped injury when a riot broke out in the Sahiwal prison, leaving one prisoner dead and another 30 injured. Death row cells of 150 prisoners were broken open, the gallows set on fire and five jail employees taken hostage before police regained control with a heavy barrage of gunfire and tear gas. Their September transfer to the Sahiwal jail moved the Masih brothers 150 miles away from their wives and children in Sabu Mohaal village, near Pasrur. The distance has made it difficult and expensive for their families to visit them. It's a full day for them to go and come by bus, about six hours each way and they can only see them maximum for half an hour, not more. Rasheed Masih, now 36, has five children, and Saleem, 32, has three. During their first two years in prison, their elder brother Hamid Masih had provided for his two sisters-in-law and their eight children in their home village. But after his home was robbed and his wife raped by four assailants in June 2001, Hamid Masih moved his family out of the region to the relative anonymity of a large city. The Masih brothers' village is less than 20 miles from Chianwali, where three Christians were killed and another 13 injured in a Christmas night attack on a village church.

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Government Officials Contacts
MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Name: Khurshid M. Kasuri
Tel: 921-0335
Fax: 920-7600
E-mail Address: [email protected]

Director General (Foreign Minister's Office)
Name: Khalid Mehmood
Tel: 920-3824
E-mail Address: [email protected]

Dy. Dir. (Foreign Minister's Office)
Name: Rahim Hayat Qureshi
Tel: 920-7762
E-mail Address: [email protected]

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FOREIGN SECRETARY

Name: Riaz H. Khokhar
Tel: 921-1492
Fax: 920-2717
E-mail Address: [email protected]

Director (Foreign Secretary's Office)
Name: Tehmina Janjua
Tel: 920-3130
E-mail Address: [email protected]

Dy. Dir. (Foreign Secretary's Office)
Name: Syrus Sajjad Qazi
Tel: 920-1934
E-mail Address: [email protected]

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ADDITIONAL SECRETARIES

A.S. (Admin)
Name: Javed Hafiz
Tel: 921-0971
Fax: 921-3795
E-mail Address: [email protected]

A.S. (Afghanistan & ECO)
Vacant
Tel: 920-1394
Fax: 920-6173
E-mail Address: [email protected]

A.S. (Americas)
Name: M. Saeed Khalid
Tel: 920-1542
Fax: 922-2782
E-mail Address: [email protected]

A.S. (Asia Pacific)
Name: Salman Bashir
Tel: 920-7938
Fax: 921-9023
E-mail Address: [email protected]

A.S. (Europe)
Name: Toheed Ahmad
Tel: 9202255
Fax: 9201802 E-mail Address: [email protected]

A.S. (Middle East & Africa)
Name: Shafkat Saeed
Tel: 921-0002
Fax: 920-6537
E-mail Address: [email protected]

A.S. (Policy Planning)
Name: Shaheen A.Gillani
Tel: 920-2255
Fax: 920-2255
E-mail Address: [email protected]

A.S. (United Nations & Eco. Coord)
Name: Tariq Osman Hyder
Tel: 920-5494
Fax: 920-2518
E-mail Address: [email protected]

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CHIEF OF PROTOCOL

Name: Brig (R) Mian Khalid Habib
Tel: 920-4019
Fax: 920-1452

Dy. Chief of Protocol (P-1)
Name: Abdul Lateef 
Tel: 922-1158

Dy. Chief of Protocol (P-2)
Name: Seema Ilahi Baloch
Tel: 920-2685

Dy. Chief of Protocol (Visit-1)
Name: Muhammad Saeed Khan
Tel: 920-3720

Dy. Chief of Protocol (Visit-2)
Name: Col. (R) Salik Nawaz
Tel: 920-4914
Fax: 920-4914

Dy. Chief of Protocol (Karachi)
Name: Tariq Iqbal Soomro
Tel: (021) 920-4989, 920-6690
Fax: 920-4991

Dy. Chief of Protocol (Lahore)
Name: Dr. Aman Rashid
Tel: 920-0247
Fax: 920-0248

Dy. Chief of Protocol (Peshawar)
Name:  Syed  Zulfiqar Ali Shah
Tel: 9211673
Fax: 9211673

Dy. Chief of Protocol (Quetta)
Name: Vacant
Tel: 448785
Fax: 448785

Legal Advisor
Name: Shair Bahadur Khan
Tel: 922-3798

Dy Legal Advisor
Name: Shair Bahadur Khan
Tel: 920-9934

Information Officer
Name: Nadeem Haider Kiani
Tel: 920-7947
Fax: 921-4033

Dy Director (Arabic)
Name: Zahid Raza Khan
Tel: 920-2698

Asst Dir (R)
Name: M. Munir Khan
Tel: 922-3764

Dy Dir (CO)
Name: S. Abdul Razzaq
Tel: 920-7865

Dy Dir (CS)
Name: Liaqat Ali
Tel: 920-7866

Radio Officer-I
Name: Maj. Daud ur Rehman.
Tel: 920-7946

Radio Officer-II
Name: Maj. Ovais Shahid
Tel: 920-7944

Security Officer
Name: Maj. Muhammad Iftikhar
Tel: 920-4281

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DIRECTORS GENERAL

D.G. (Afghanistan & ECO )
Name: Rashed Saleem Khan
Tel: 920-2338
Fax: 920-2338
E-mail Address:

D.G. (Africa)
Name: M. Asghar Afridi
Tel: 920-7158
Fax: 920-7158
E-mail Address: [email protected]

D.G. (Americas)
Name: Mr.A.B.K.Babar
Tel: 920-6206
Fax: 920-6206
E-mail Address: [email protected]

D.G. (Disarmament-C)
Name: Brig Tipu Sultan
Tel: 920-7690
Fax: 920-7690
E-mail Address: [email protected]

D.G. (Disarmament)
Name: Nazir Hussain
Tel: 920-7696
Fax: 920-7696
E-mail Address: [email protected]

D.G. (East Asia Pacific)
Name: M. Naeem Khan
Tel: 920-3805
Fax: 920-3805
E-mail Address: [email protected]

D.G. (Eco. Coord)
Name: Athar Mahmood
Tel: 920-1944
Fax: 920-1944
E-mail Address: [email protected]

D.G. (Europe)
Name: Sohail Amin
Tel: 920-2262
Fax: 920-2262
E-mail Address: [email protected]

D.G. (Hqrs)
Name: Tariq Azizuddin
Tel: 921-8880
Fax: 921-8880
E-mail Address: [email protected]

D.G. (Media Coordination & Research)
Name: Muhammad Anwar Chohan
Tel: 920-7683 
Fax: 922-4205, 922-4206
E-mail Address:

D.G. (Middle East)
Name: Sajjad Ashraf
Tel: 920-2371
Fax: 920-2371


D.G. (Mission & Finance)
Name: Habib-ur-Rahman
Tel: 920-4502
Fax: 920-4502
E-mail Address: [email protected]

D.G. (NASA)
Name: Muhammad Younas Khan
Tel: 921-3789
Fax: 922-4205, 922-4206
E-mail Address: [email protected]

D.G. (OIC)
Name: Mr. Sanaullah
Tel: 920-8747
Fax: 920-8747
E-mail Address:

D.G. (Personnel)
Name: Zafar Ullah Shaikh
Tel: 920-2362
Fax: 920-4059
E-mail Address: [email protected]

D.G. (Policy Planning)
Name: Faiz Muhammad Khoso
Tel: 920-7575
Fax: 920-7575
E-mail Address: [email protected]

D.G. (Research-II)
Name: Riaz A. Syed
Tel: 920-7690
Fax: 922-4205, 922-4206
E-mail Address: [email protected]

D.G. (South Asia)
Name: Jalil Abbas Jilani
Tel: 920-2122
Fax: 920-2122
E-mail Address: [email protected]

D.G. (SAARC)
Name: Fauzia M. Sana
Tel: 921-3789
Fax: 921-3789
E-mail Address:

D.G. (United Nations & Spokesman)
Name: Muhammad Masood Khan
Tel: 920-7683
Fax: 920-7683
E-mail Address: [email protected]

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CAO, FOREIGN AUDIT, DFA

Chief Account Officer
Name: Sarshar Ahmad Khan
Tel: 920-1952
Fax: 922-4707

Deputy CAO-1
Name: Ismail Satti
Tel: 921-7672

Deputy CAO-2
Name: Sardar Muhammad Khattak
Tel: 921-6006

Director Foreign Audit
Name: Abdul Khaliq
Tel: 922-3754
Fax: 920-4874

Dy. Director Foreign Audit
Name: Khurram Raza Qureshi
Tel: 922-3752
Fax: 920-4874

Dy. Financial Advisor (FA)
Name: Riaz Ahmad Khan
Tel: 920-1019

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PRIME MINISTER'S SECRETARIAT

Additional Secretary (FA)
Name: Hassan Sarmad
Tel: 920-7381
Fax: 920-1968

Deputy Secy to AS(FA)
Name:
Tel: 920-8787

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FOREIGN SERVICE ACADEMY

Director General
Name: Musa Javed Chohan
Tel: 921-2083
Fax: 920-3264

Director
Name: Seema Naqvi
Tel: 920-3892

Director
Name: Amjad Ali Sher
Tel: 920-3838



Last updated on: 24th June 2004
DIRECTORS

Director (Arab Affairs)
Name: Qazi Habib ur Rehman
Tel: 920-5846

Director (Afghanistan)
Name: Fakir Syed Asif Hussain
Tel: 920-1070

Director (Africa)
Name: Fazal ur Rehman Qazi
Tel: 922-2103

Director (Americas)
Name: Tasnim Aslam
Tel: 920-1757

Director (Audit)
Name: Imran Yawar
Tel: 920-7775

Director (Central Asian Republics & ECO)
Name: Mir Badshah
Tel: 920-2604

Director (China, Japan, Korea)
Name: A.S. Babar Hashmi
Tel: 920-1133

Director (Communication & Consular)
Supervised by Director(GS)
Tel: 920-7768

Director (Disarmament)
Name: Shuja Alam
Tel: 920-7677

Director (Economic Coordination)
Name: Asad Majeed Khan
Tel: 920-7752

Director (Europe-I)
Name: Aman Rashid
Tel: 920-5865

Director (Europe-II)

Name: Naela Chohan
Tel: 920-7773

Director (Europe-III)
Name: Sabrina Masood
Tel: 920-7798

Director (Finance)
Supevised by Director (Aduit)
Tel: 920-2389

Director (Gulf Region)
Name: Arif Mahmood
Tel: 920-5440

Director (General Services & Welfare)
Name: Ayaz Hussain
Tel: 920-4367

Director (India)
Name: Tariq Zamir
Tel: 920-4310

Director (Iran & Turkey)
Name: Ghulam Farid Furrukh
Tel: 920-7764

Director (Kashmir Affairs)
Name: Zehra H. Akbari
Tel: 920-2787

Director (Mission Buildings)
Mr. Khalid Usman Qaiser
Tel: 920-8721

Director (Mission Services)
Supervised by Director (MB)
Tel: 920-7617

Director (NBBS)
Name: Riaz H. Bukhari
Tel: 920-7929

Director (Org & Career Planning)
Name: Shah M. Jamal
Tel: 920-6262

Director (Personnel-I)
Name: Riffat Masood
Tel: 922-4009
Fax: 920-1015

Director (Personnel-II)
Name: Asaf Khan
Tel: 920-1405

Director (Policy Planning)
Name: Iffat Imran Gardezi
Tel: 920-7906

Director (SAARC)
Name: Mr. Najam us Saqib
Tel: 920-8234

Director (SC & HR)
Name: Imtiaz Hussain
Tel: 920-2623

Director (SEAP)
Name: Safdar Hayat
Tel: 920-2623

Director (SSA)
Name: Akhtar Ali Sulehri
Tel: 920-2625

Director (UN-I)
Name: Burhanul Islam
Tel: 920-7756

Director (UN-II)
Name: Abdul Wahab Khan
Tel: 920-6149

Director (Archives)
Name: Asad Ezdi Shah
Tel: 920-7868

Director (UN-II )
Name: Abdul Wahab Khan
Tel: 920-6149

Director (DISARM&NA-I)
Name: Lt.Col. Mussarat Naseem
Tel: 920-7675

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