CM Murad Shah orders release of low-risk prisoners in Karachi

Pakistani policemen stand guard outside the Karachi Central Prison in Karachi on October 13, 2014. Pakistani officials said they had thwarted an Islamist group's bid to tunnel into Karachi's main prison and stage a jailbreak that could have freed 100 dangerous militants. The government paramilitary Rangers raided a house where members of a militant group were trying to tunnel into the nearby Karachi Central Jail, Rangers Colonel Tahir Mehmood told a press conference. AFP PHOTO/ Rizwan TABASSUM

Posted By: Fahim Ahmed March 26, 2020

Karachi (HRNW) Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah has ordered relief for prisoners at jails in Karachi amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Chairing a meeting on Thursday, he said that there were more than 16,000 prisoners behind bars in Karachi and he wants that number to decrease.

The chief minister has therefore instructed the Sindh inspector-general and prison staff to provide relief to them. All low-risk prisoners should be granted bail, he said.

Those who can’t afford to pay the bail amount will have their sureties paid by the government, Shah assured.

He has ordered the jail staff to ensure that social distancing is practiced inside prisons as well and prisoners should maintain distance among themselves.

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