* Says Very Few Officials Involved In Drug Trafficking * 'convict Officers' Still Working For Jail Administrations

LAHORE: Drug supply to criminals in jails can be checked, but not eliminated, Prisons Inspector General Sarfraz Ahmad Mufti told Daily Times on Tuesday.

The IG said drug addicts and peddlers were kept in separate cells, but despite stringent measures they manage to bring to jails the drugs they get from their accomplices, friends or relatives when they go for court hearings and share these drugs with other inmates.

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