Central Jail Rawalpindi

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Location	Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Coordinates	33°29′14.62″N 73°2′24.49″E / 33.4873944°N 73.0401361°E / 33.4873944; 73.0401361
Security class	Maximum
Capacity	1919
Population	4598[1] (as of 03 February 2010)
Opened	1986
Managed by	Government of Punjab, Pakistan
Director	Mohsin Rafique Chaudhry, Superintendent of Jail[2]
Notable prisoners
Yusuf Raza Gillani Released on 7 October 2006, Mirza Tahir Hussain Released on 17 November 2006.

Central Jail Rawalpindi (also slanged as Adyala jail by local residents of surrounding rural area) is a prominent and Maximum Security correctional facility managed by the Ministry of Prisons and Correctional Institutes of Government of Pakistan in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. It is notorious for the trials of Prime Ministers of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1970s, and Navaz Sharif in 2000. Former Prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was hanged at this facility, while Navaz Sharif received life imprisonment, but later was exiled after an international pressure was exerted by foreign powers.

History

The Central Jail Rawalpindi was constructed in between late 1970s and early 1980s during the military regime of General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, after hanging to death of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the ex-Prime Minister of Pakistan on 4 April 1979 in District Jail Rawalpindi. The latter jail was demolished and converted in to a public park. The Jail is situated on Rawalpindi - Adyala Road near village Dahgal about 13 kilometres toward west of District Courts and the defunct / demolished old District Jail Rawalpindi. The village Adyala (with whose relation the Jail is slanged as Adyala Jail) is located about 4 kilometres west of the Jail.