28 prisoners freed

Published October 23, 2006

QUETTA, Oct 22: Twenty-eight prisoners were released from District Jail Quetta and Central Jail Mach following federal and provincial government’s remission in sentences of the prisoners for Eidul Fitr.

Officials of the district jail here said that 18 prisoners released as a result of remission announced by the federal and provincial governments.

Similarly 10 prisoners were released from Central Jail Mach. There are 1005 prisoners lodged in this jail.

Of these 150 had been benefitted form the remissions and their imprisonment had been minimised.

There were 149 prisoners who had been sentenced to death.

SPECIAL TRAINS: The third and final Eid-special-train departed here on Sunday for Lahore at 1pm on the second day of the ‘Eid operation’, Divisional Superintendent Railway, Ayaz Gul Kakakhel, told APP.

He said the first train departed for Peshawar on Saturday at 9pm and the second train for Rawalpindi at 1pm.

Around 10,000 passengers, going back to their homes for celebrating the festival with their families, benefited from the Eid trains departed from the provincial capital he said, adding that the Railway administration had made special security arrangements for the trains in collaboration with the federal and the provincial government agencies.

—Agencies

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