On the advice of the prime minister, President Asif Ali Zardari has granted special remission in sentences to the convicts of various categories on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr. A special remission of 90 days has been granted to the prisoners convicted for life imprisonment except those convicted for heinous crimes including murder, espionage and anti-state activities, sectarianism, fornication, robbery, kidnapping/abduction and terrorist acts. Special remission for 45 days granted to all other convicts except the condemned prisoners and also except those convicted of heinous crimes.
The above special remissions will be admissible provided that the convicts have undergone two-thirds of their substantive sentence of imprisonment. The total remission to male prisoners who are 65 years of age or above, and the female prisoners who are 60 years of age or above, who have undergone at least one-third of their substantive sentence of imprisonment, except those involved in culpable homicide and those involved in terrorist acts, as defined in the anti-terrorism (second amendment) Ordinance 1999, (No. XIII of 1999).
Inmates get special remission in sentences on Eid
