Mobile phone, Facebook in Bannu raid

Taliban militants had stormed the a jail in the northwest primarily to free Adnan Rashid, on death row for an attempt to assassinate former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, and who was in touch with the outside world through a mobile phone, Facebook and blogs.

Over 380 other prisoners along with Rashid had escaped from the Central Jail at Bannu in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday. Security officials said the Pakistani Taliban carried out the attack primarily to free Rashid.

Rashid had used mobile phones inside death row cells of different jails where he was held after his conviction, the

Dawn newspaper quoted its sources as saying on Monday.

A former junior technician of the Pakistan Air Force, Rashid also contributed to several social networking sites like Facebook and to blogs from inside prison, said the report. — PTI