17 inmates granted early release
Eid remission not available to people convicted of terrorism, heinous crimes
KARACHI:
Like every year, the Sindh government has announced constitutional relief to select prisoners on the festive occasion of Eidul Fitr.
The Sindh government has announced 90 day remission for women prisoners aged 60 and above and for men aged 65 and above as well as for inmates who have completed one third of their sentence.
However, inmates serving sentences for committing treason, terrorism, murder, rape, armed robbery, kidnapping for extortion and other heinous crimes will not get the benefit of remission.
The remission has reduced the jail term for 81 eligible prisoners and at least 17 among them will be able to secure early release and go home to celebrate Eid with their families. However, sources say that going home for Eid for the prisoners is dependent on the completion of legal procedures. According to the notification issued by the Prisons IG, prisoners
Recalling the Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case
Recalling the Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case
A new book sheds light on Pakistan’s first attempted coup d’état
Pakistanis in 2021 vaguely recall The Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case of 1951 that saw a group of military and civilian personalities being imprisoned for trying to overthrow the government before being released in 1956 under a general amnesty. Captain (retd.) Zafarullah Poshni one of the inmates of the Hyderabad Central Jail revived the memory of the failed conspiracy in 2019’s
Prison Interlude: The Last Eyewitness Account of the Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case.
In 1951, 11 officers of the Armed Forces of Pakistan, along with four eminent civilians, were arrested for planning to stage the country’s first coup d’état. The list of the arrestees appeared as follows:
Gujarat cattle herder who crossed over to Pakistan in 2008 returns to India
Sama reached Amritsar after crossing over to the Indian territory through Wagah-Attari international border on Friday, officials at Attari said.
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AHMEDABAD: A cattle herder from Gujarat s Kutch district, who had inadvertently crossed over to Pakistan in 2008 and was arrested there on charges of spying, has finally returned to India after languishing in the neighbouring country s jails, officials said.
Ismael Sama, 60, from Nana Dinara village in Kutch, located some 60 kms from the Pakistan border, had mistakenly crossed over to Pakistan while grazing his cattle.
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A cattle herder from Gujarat’s Kutch district, who had inadvertently crossed over to Pakistan in 2008 and was arrested there on charges of spying, has finally returned to India after languishing in the neighbouring country’s jails, officials said.
Ismael Sama, 60, from Nana Dinara village in Kutch, located some 60 km from the Pakistan border, had mistakenly crossed over to Pakistan while grazing his cattle.
He was arrested and kept in the jails of that country before he was released two days back following the Islamabad High Court’s order on a plea moved by the Indian High Commission there.
Imran Khanâs Close Aides Giving Special Treatment To Terrorist Omar Saeed Sheikh Who Murdered Journalist Daniel Pearl
Source: New Indian Express
Terrorist Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh is being provided comfortable facilities in the Hyderabad Central Jail allegedly at the behest of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khanâs close aide Brigadier Ijaz Ahmed Shah, the
Sunday Guardianreports.
Sheikh is under detention along with his three associates for murdering American âThe Wall Street Journalâ journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002.
However, the Sindh High Court acquitted Sheikh from the murder charges and commuted his jail sentence to seven years. The court stated that the terrorist had already spent 18 years in jail and hence his prison term would be considered completed.