At least 12 people including six police were killed and eight others wounded in the assault late on Monday staged by fighters disguised in police uniforms, officials said.
The attack in the town of Dera Ismail Khan began around midnight on Tuesday morning with a huge explosion, intelligence officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to talk to reporters.
The fighters then detonated a series of smaller bombs to destroy the prison's boundary wall.
"Police and other law enforcing agencies are busy in clearing the jail," senior government official Mushtaq Jadoon said, adding authorities have imposed a curfew in the city and asked residents to stay at home.
Al Jazeera's Imtiaz Tyab, reporting from the capital Islamabad, said: "I would describe it (attack) as extremely calculated."
Officials have said, in all between 40-45 so-called high-profile or high-value prisoners were freed, our correspondent said.
This attack was supported and funded by US/Sauida, the alliance and relations between Pakistan and China were targeted..and to effect the Gawardar Port project, which is given to China by Pakistan, which against the mutual interests of US and Saudis. Pakistani Taliban are tools of the US/Saudia... the partners in crimes.
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