LAHORE: Tehmina Durrani, renowned rights activist, author and Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s wife, on Saturday urged the provincial government to release prisoners who committed petty crimes, saying the “voiceless need our voices.”
In a series of tweets, the Punjab chief minister’s wife said Shebaz Sharif’s government should salute Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah — the founder of the nation — by gifting freedom to prisoners who committed petty crimes or the ones waiting too long for their sentence, including women and children.
“Shebaz Sharif let [our] forgotten people, rotting behind walls of forbidden cities, [walk] in to FREEDOM! [Give them our] flag to hold & shout INDEPENDENCE,” she tweeted.
In another tweet, she said, “The demand sent to Punjab CM [should] also be implemented by PM Abbasi across Pakistan. The people of [our] nation who read this [please] demand the same.”
She mentioned the nation was created for those poverty stricken citizens who are in “hellhole prisons.” “Give back [there] Pakistan,” she urged.
