KASUR – Legal aid would be provided to the prisoners involved in minor crimes, said Interior Parliamentary Secretary Ghulam Mujtaba Kharl during his visit to District Jail Kasur. He said the visits were being paid to the jails to resolve the problems of the prisoners on the direction of President Asif Ali Zardari Pakistan People’s Party’s (PPP) government was making policies at national level, he further said and added that government preferred to transform death sentence into life imprisonment.
He said the administrative and security staff would be separated to improve the management in the jails. Kasur Jail Superintendent Farooq Lodhi informed the secretary about the non availability of doctors in the jail, upon which, Kharl assured him of the early appointment of the doctors.
