Daily Times

To provide relief to prisoners, Punjab Chief Minister, Sardar Usman Buzdar has lifted a ban on parole.

Instructions have been issued to the Home Department in this regard while CM Buzdar also directed to shift 400 prisoners incarcerated in Punjab jails to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

He maintained that immediate action should also be taken as per law to send them to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Punjab CM is taking this directive to help families and heirs of prisoners; enabling them to meet them with greater convenience. Prisoners were also said to have basic human rights.

The chief minister also said he was gathering information about the conditions of inmates in Punjab prisons; vowing to provide them with facilities as per the jail manual.

The children of woman inmates should also be taken care of properly, he further added.

Earlier, the Lahore High Court (LHC) was informed on April 18 that 81 people had been incarcerated in different jails across the city over non-payment of their fines and diyat amount. As the hearing went

underway, Police Jail Affairs Inspector-General had apprised Justice Mazhar Ali Akbar.

The court was hearing a petition filed by Advocate Nadeem Sarwar.

Prisons IG further noted that efforts were afoot for the release of prisoners unable to pay fines.