President Zardari grants prisoners special Eid remission

| 17th August, 2012
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President Asif Ali Zardari—AP Photo

President Asif Ali Zardari—AP Photo

ISLAMABAD: On the occasion of Eidul Fitr, President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday approved the granting of special remission in the jail terms of prisoners convicted under different cases, DawnNews reported.

Special remission of 90 days has been announced for the prisoners sentenced for life imprisonment except those convicted for murder, espionage, anti-state activities, sectarianism, zina, robbery, dacoity, kidnapping or abduction and terrorist activities.

Special remission for 45 days has been allowed to all other convicts, except condemned prisoners and those convicted of murder, espionage, subversion, anti-state activities, terrorist activities, zina, kidnapping or abduction, robbery, dacoity and those undergoing sentences under the Foreigners Act 1946.

Special remission for all such cases will be admissible provided the convicts have undergone two-thirds of their substantive sentences of imprisonment.

COMMENTS

  1. In prison they were getting 3 meals a day; wait till the reality hit; they may be back.

  2. Justice delayed is justice denied! this is what this nation is suffering from!

    how can he do any favour to this country when his own wife killers haven’t been caught.

  3. Who will grant his remission when he is in prison once he is out of office? No one!

  4. Of course, what else, it would be interesting to know how many of his friends and colleagues are amongst those released?

  5. the empathy is so understandable !