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Adyala Jail

Central Jail Rawalpindi
Location Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Coordinates 33°29′14.62″N 73°2′24.49″E / 33.4873944°N 73.0401361°E / 33.4873944; 73.0401361Coordinates: 33°29′14.62″N 73°2′24.49″E / 33.4873944°N 73.0401361°E / 33.4873944; 73.0401361
Security class Maximum
Capacity 1919
Population 5082 (as of 04 April 2016)
Opened 1986
Managed by Government of Punjab, Pakistan
Director Saeed Ullah Gondal, Senior Superintendent of Jail

Central Jail Rawalpindi (also slanged as Adyala jail by local residents of surrounding rural area) is a prominent jail in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

The Central Jail Rawalpindi was constructed in between the late 1970s and early 1980s during the military regime of General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, after hanging to death of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the ex-Prime Minister of Pakistan on 4 April 1979 in District Jail Rawalpindi. The latter jail was demolished and converted into a public park. The Jail is situated on Rawalpindi - Adyala Road near village Dahgal about 13 kilometres toward west of District Courts and the defunct / demolished old District Jail Rawalpindi. The village Adyala (with whose relation the Jail is slanged as Adyala Jail) is located about 4 kilometres west of the Jail.


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