Pakistan Drug Addiction
Pakistan: 25% inmates in Rawalpindi, Lahore jails are drug addicts, finds report
Islamabad: A National Commission of Human Rights (NCHR) released report has shown that more than 25 percent of inmates in Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail and Lahore’s District Jail are drug addicts, media reports said on Tuesday.
The report also showed that 2,309 out of 9,038 inmates in the two prisons were addicts.
The inspection by the commission revealed that out of 3,800 inmates in the District Jail, around 900 were drug addicts, while the number in Adiala Jail stood at around 1,404, reports Dawn News.
The commission, in its report submitted to the Islamabad High Court (IHC) earlier this week, also identified at least eight types of torture that are practised inside the prison.
Inmates in Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail are subjected to slapping, whipping, solitary confinement and other forms of torture, it added.
Based on interviews with at least 35 prisoners, the NCHR stated that every new inmate was subjected to mandatory mulahiza (inspection), an interview with the prison superintendent, the report showed.
The report added that prisoners were also whipped with leather straps while some were taken to jail within the jail called aik (one) where they are kept in solitary confinement against the rules.
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