HYDERABAD, Jan 30: A fact finding team of journalists, constituted by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Special Task Force (STF), has held the central jail administration responsible for lawlessness, sale of narcotics and acts of sodomy within the premises of jail.

It was of the considered opinion that if those administration was sincere in strictly enforcing the jail manual, such lawlessness would not have been witnessed.

The team was constituted to make queries in the wake of press reports, hunger strikes and protest demonstrations against the central jail administration, Hyderabad.

The team members included Akhtar Baluch, Ansar Naqvi, Hamid Sheikh, M.H.Khan, Munir Rajar and Ghulam Hussain Khaskheli.

The senior vice chairperson of the HRCP, Sindh, Ali Hassan, released the report on Wednesday.

The team members visited civil and sessions courts and interviewed a number of under trial prisoners. All these prisoners who appeared perturbed following reports of the alleged torture of the so-called political prisoners agreed that the situation in the wards of non-political detainees was much better and they were getting proper food. The report said that some of them claimed that they were however being forced to bring cement bags and other materials for construction work.

The UTPs accused the deputy superintendent, Aijaz Hyder, of unleashing a reign of terror in the jail.

The team members met a number of prisoners in different wards of the jail.

The UTPs, report pointed out, claimed that the informers of the jail administration were present every where in jail.