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Summary Rangers have refused to provide security to six out of seven jails in Punjab.
These include Kot Lakhpat Lahore, Faisalabad, Bahawalpur, Multan, Mianwali, Rawalpindi and DG Khan jails.After the Bannu mishap Punjab Home Department had declared seven out of 32 jails as the most sensitive. However, Rangers have expressed their unwillingness to provide security to the Adyala Jail.Rangers’ officials are of the view that they do not have sufficient number of recruits; therefore they find it difficult to provide security to these jails which have been declared most sensitive in Punjab.
