MANSEHRA, July 1: The Sindh home department has requested the NWFP government to take a mastermind of the Karachi jail bomb plot to the Haripur central prison for carrying out the death sentence awarded to him a few years ago for killing his classmate.

Sources said the Sindh home department in a letter asked the NWFP home secretary to shift Khurram Malik to Haripur as a mercy petition filed by his mother had been turned down by the president.

Khurram had killed his first-year classmate Ijaz alias Goga in Mansehra in 1998 after developing differences over a girl. He chopped Goga’s body into pieces and threw these in various places.

The sources said the NWFP government had been asked to shift the prisoner to Islamabad from Karachi by air as he was very dangerous and had previously escaped from the Haripur prison.

He was arrested in Karachi on April 22, 2002.

Khurram along with four other inmates, all alleged activists of a banned jihadi outfit, on May 21, 2004 planned to destroy the Central Prison Karachi (ward number 19) by detonating a bomb to escape from the prison.