From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1972: Fifty Years Ago: Jail revolt crushed.

PESHAWAR -- Sixty inmates of the local Central Jail were injured, many of them seriously, when the police opened fire, following rioting by striking prisoners in which the Jail Superintendent was injured.

... Officials said the six-day-old strike had been completely crushed and the situation was now fully under control with all the prisoners inside their barracks. The strikers, who had earlier released 24 condemned prisoners from their cells, had demolished a wall to use the bricks as missiles. When the authorities told them their demands were unacceptable, the prisoners got rowdy and started throwing brickbats. ... Having failed to control the situation, firing...