{"id":17044,"date":"2024-08-12T10:24:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T10:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=17044"},"modified":"2024-08-12T10:24:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T10:24:24","slug":"on-independence-day-president-grants-90-day-remission-to-elderly-juvenile-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=17044","title":{"rendered":"On Independence Day, President grants 90-day remission to elderly, juvenile prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/246457531_636947844377567_4262739675205600246_n-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17045\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/246457531_636947844377567_4262739675205600246_n-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/246457531_636947844377567_4262739675205600246_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/246457531_636947844377567_4262739675205600246_n-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/246457531_636947844377567_4262739675205600246_n.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ISLAMABAD&nbsp; : &nbsp;President Asif Ali Zardari granted a 90-day remission of sentence for the prisoners of life imprisonment \u2013 males of 65 years and above and females above 60 \u2013 who have served one-third of their term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The president granted the remission of sentence under Article 45 of the Constitution on the occasion of the country\u2019s 78th Independence Day, a President House press release said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The remission will not apply to the prisoners involved in murder, espionage, anti-state activities, rape, theft, robbery, kidnap and terrorism. Those involved in financial crimes, causing loss to the national exchequer, and convicted under the Foreigners Act 1946, and Narcotics Control (Amendment) Act 2022 will also be ineligible for the remission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The remission will apply to female prisoners serving the sentence with their children and individuals under 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD&nbsp; : &nbsp;President Asif Ali Zardari granted a 90-day remission of sentence for the prisoners of life imprisonment \u2013 males of 65 years and above and females above 60 \u2013&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":17045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-17044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-stories","category-national","tag-president-of-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17046,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17044\/revisions\/17046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}