President Dr. Arif Alvi has granted special remission in sentences of the prisoners on the auspicious occasion of Eid ul Fitr 2019.
The special remission has been granted subject to the nature of the crime.
It does not apply to those convicted for murder, espionage, anti-state activities, sectarianism, adultery, robbery, dacoity, kidnapping, culpable homicide and terrorists acts and also those undergoing sentences under the Foreigners Act, 1946.