July 26, 2003	Saturday	Jumadi-ul-Awwal 25, 1424

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LAHORE, July 25: Acting IG Prisons Punjab Sarfraz Ahmad Mufti said on Friday night that he had suspended 13 Sialkot jail personnel, including superintendent Chaudhry Mohammad Sikandar and deputy superintendent.

Talking to Dawn after his return from Sialkot, Mufti said a departmental inquiry into the Sialkot kidnapping-cum-shooting had been ordered.

In reply to a question about arms smuggling into the jail, Mufti said the accused had met some visitors on July 17 and it was possible that they got the weapons that day.