May 14, 2008	Wednesday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 8, 1429

PESHAWAR, May 13: NWFP Minister for Prisons Mian Nisar Gul Kaka Khel on Tuesday visited the Central Jail Peshawar and announced a two-month remission for all the prisoners.

Minister for Information and Technology Muhammad Ayub Khan Ashari, MNAs, MPAs, IG prisons and other officials of the concerned departments were also present on the occasion.

They visited various barracks and went round the death prisons ward, female prisons ward, narcotics patients’ wards, kitchen and hospital.

Referring to the prisoners’ complaints against prolonged power suspensions, the minister assured them that the government was trying its level best to provide power generators to all the prisons in the province.

He also issued directives for transfer of those police constables who had completed more than five years in the Central Jail Peshawar to other jails of the province.

The minister said that he would pay surprise visits to all the jails in order to bring reforms in the prisons, saying that close circuit cameras would be installed in the prisons to make the outdated system more effective.

Taking action on the prisoners’ request, he directed the concerned officials to solve the problems relating to public calls offices and also asked for arranging visit of the mobile Nadra team for issuance of new national identity cards to the prisoners.

The minister also asked the health department to pay more attention towards prisoner patients so as their problems could be minimised. He also assured the female prisoners that government would give them maximum relief in their sentences and provide them better facilities in the jails.