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Summary Capital Development Authority has shelved the matter of construction of jail in the federal capital.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik, on assumption of charge of his ministry in the incumbent government had expressed his desire for building a jail in Islamabad wherein rooms equipped with all modern facilities were to be constructed for VIPs inmates of jail.Sources told Online such rooms were meant for those politicians who are kept in jail on the charges of corruption or on some political grounds as the old Adiala jail was not found upto the standard.Sources told CDA had neither given clearance chit to the land allocated for jail so far nor worked out PC-1 on this count despite expression of desire by the interior minister on several occasions for construction of jail in Islamabad.Sources said interior ministry had been informed in this regard.
