Punjab govt to establish correctional facility for militants

E-Paper | May 15, 2026

LAHORE: The Punjab government on Wednesday decided to establish a correctional facility for suspects belonging to proscribed organisations.

Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif approved a Rs240million grant which would be utilised to establish an academy where scholars and ulemas of different schools of thought would educate and train the radicalised activists in order to return and re-integrate them into society.

At least 1,300 persons would be enrolled in the rehabilitation program in its first phase.

A similar de-radicalisation centre, the Mishal school in Swat, is already being run by the army in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

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Mateen

Jul 02, 2014 02:42pm

How about making these ex-militants construct roads, buildings and infrastructure thoughout the country for all the damage they've caused? It's the least they could do.

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Anwar

Jul 02, 2014 02:59pm

IK must be the first one to be put in this militants correctional facility

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Hammad

Jul 02, 2014 03:27pm

There should be no mercy. The IMU ran away from Uzbekistan because their govt. treated them in the only way these people understand. Put them in jail and make them do hard labour for the reconstruction of FATA, the place they have destroyed completely.

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haris

Jul 02, 2014 03:47pm

@Hammad what about those who happened to be the Pakistanis?

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event horizon

Jul 02, 2014 04:12pm

@Anwar Good one.

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Jani

Jul 02, 2014 04:56pm

The rehab in Swat is not a success story.It is more an economic problem , as they are paid well by militant groups when they join their ranks, even while in madrasas they are accomodated free of charge. They are trained militants ,better to absorbe them in para military units under strict disciplinary surveillance.Rehab is not a solution but a way of indirectly bribing a few political affiliates in the garb of hiring their tutorial services.

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Jul 02, 2014 05:10pm

@Anwar Why only IK ? Why not all the politicians.?.

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xulfjan

Jul 02, 2014 09:16pm

Give them jobs, give them hope and ensure future for them and their children ( In short stop playing politics)....Mullahs cant set the rot right which they created in the first place!!

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Hussain

Jul 02, 2014 10:53pm

They killed pakistanis so they all should be hanged! Spend the money on the familes who had their loved ones killed by these evil people.

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