President Alvi announces remission in sentences for prisoners on the occasion of Independence Day of Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, August 13 (SABAH): On the occasion of Independence Day of Pakistan, President Dr. Arif Alvi on Saturday announced remission in the sentences of prisoners under Article 45 of the Constitution.

Under the announcement, complete remission was granted to the elderly male prisoners who are 65 years of age or above and have undergone at least 15 years of jail term or more.

Similarly, complete remission was also extended to those female prisoners having an age of 60 years or more and who had spent 10 years or more in jail, besides the same would be applicable to those prisoners who had completed ¾th of their substantive imprisonment terms.

Those jail inmates would also get benefits of complete remission who had completed 20-year of their substantive sentences. The jail sentences of general prisoners would be reduced by a fifth.

However, the special remission would not be extended to those prisoners who are on death row and convicted in espionage, gang rape, bank robbery, anti-state activities, zina, abduction and dacoity cases.