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Pakistan: Adiala Jail fails to provide facilities to prisoners due to shor
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The management of Adiala jail has failed to give maximum facilities to inmates. Shortage of funds has caused hindrances in the completion of new barracks as water, electricity, gas and sanitation issues have affected the capital, Dawn reported.
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Pakistan prison releases 26 Afghan detainees
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
The detainees were brought from the prisons in Pakistan through the Spin Boldak border crossing. Afghanistan's department of Refugees and Repatriation, on Wednesday, said that women and children were imprisoned in Sindh because of the lack of residency documents. They were among those detain
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Pakistan releases 2 Indian prisoners, 700 still in jail
Updated : 3 years ago IST
According to Protocol Officer Arun Pal, prisoner Raju entered Pakistan by mistake, five years ago and the second prisoner Gembra Ram has spent around two and a half years in prison in Pakistan.
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Pakistan panel reveals 974 'missing people' in detention centres, 616 in p
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
In the report, the Missing Persons Commission said that 974 people declared "missing" were in detention centres while 616 remained in prisons.
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Saga of Pakistan: Censorship, prison state
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], October 2 (ANI): Pakistan recently celebrated its 75th Independence Day on August 14 and weeks after its anniversary, the country's media regulatory authority, PEMRA, placed a ban on live telecast of the speeches of Imran Khan, a former Prime Minister. It also blocked Y
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SC issues notice to Centre on plea seeking repatriation of Indian Army off
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 13 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a notice on a plea filed by the wife of an Indian army officer, a prisoner of war (PoW) detained by Pakistan since 1971, seeking his repatriation and effective mechanism for enforcement and protection of Prisoners of Wa
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Agitation in Pakistan's Larkana jail ends after 8-day stand off
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Larkana [Pakistan], February 12 (ANI): Prisoners in Pakistan's Larkana Central Prison released seven policemen that they held hostage since last Friday, ending the eight-day standoff.
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Pakistan's criminal justice system aggravates problems for prison reforms
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 29 (ANI): Pakistan as it contemplates comprehensive prison reforms implementation has to deal with the structural problems of the criminal justice system.
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Pakistan: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial jails swamped with inmates
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan] September 1 (ANI): Pakistan opposition on Tuesday informed the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly that several prisons in the province are highly overcrowded.
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Pakistan's under-trial prisoners seek rights and better living conditions
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 6 (ANI): Undertrial prisoners incarcerated in the Camp Jail Lahore have appealed to Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar to ensure the provision of the "very few rights guaranteed to prisoners under the outdated British prison manual".
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General Sam Manekshaw asked Pakistan army to surrender or face annihilatio
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 7 (ANI): Indian Army Chief General SHFJ Manekshaw had asked Pakistan army to surrender or face annihilation in the 1971 war, says a new book which notes that pre-emptive attacks on Indian Air Force bases on December 3 night were immediately repulsed and it was
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Odisha tribal man set to return home after 20 years in Pak jail
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Sundargarh (Odisha) [India], November 5 (ANI): A tribal man from Odisha, who was imprisoned in a Pakistani jail after he wandered off at the border 20 years ago, will be returning home this month according to the police on Wednesday.
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