President Asif Zardari approved the reduction of the sentences of prisoners by 90, 90 days on the occasion of Pakistan Day and Eid-ul-Fitr. The reduction of sentences will not apply to prisoners involved in murder, espionage and anti-state activities.
The reduction of sentences will also not apply to criminals convicted of adultery, theft, robbery, kidnapping, and terrorism. Apart from this, the reduction of sentence will not be applicable to criminals who commit financial crimes and damage to the national exchequer, while the reduction of sentence will not be applicable to those convicted under the Foreign Persons Act, 1946, the Narcotics Control (Amendment) Act, 2022.65 It will be applied to male prisoners over the age of one-third who have served one-third of their imprisonment. Reduction of sentence will be applied to women prisoners above 60 years of age who have served one-third of their imprisonment.
