Peshawar: Pakistan Taliban took a month to plan the jail break and spent one crore to execute it with military-like precision. A day after the militants freed around 300 prisoners from a high-security Pakistani prison, Adnan Rashid, a Taliban commander who was released by the militants in a jail break incident in Bannu few years back, said the operation was named "Marg-e-Nijat" and it was launched to set free six militants of Quetta and some others. It took a month to plan the assault and cost Rs one crore to materialize the plan, he said.
"We freed two important commanders hailing from Parachinar, six each from Dera Ismail Khan and Quetta. Our friends have now reached the safe place in Mir Ali in North Waziristan agency," Rashid told a private TV channel. "It was part of the plan to remain in the jail premises for 20 minutes and then escape to the adjacent tribal agency South Waziristan within one hour of the attack," Rashid said.
"Eight special commandos (suicide attackers) participated in the jail break and they were equipped with latest night vision gadgets and latest weaponry. In all thirteen vehicles were used in the operation and used two ways to reach the jail," the Taliban commander said.
Meanwhile, the police on Wednesday re-arrested 45 prisoners who had escaped. Security officials were quoted by the daily as saying that the re-arrested convicts had voluntarily surrendered themselves to police and that a search was still underway to apprehend as many escaped prisoners as possible.
