ISLAMABAD: Autho­rities on Thursday issued a threat alert for a potential “massive” prison break in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after the government announced an end to a moratorium on the death penalty in terrorism-related cases.

“We received terror alert today about a possible prison break in four major prisons of the province,” a senior prison official in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

province, who saw the alert, told AFP on conditions of anonymity.

Published in Dawn, December 19th, 2014