{"id":93212,"date":"2020-09-02T18:04:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T13:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=93212"},"modified":"2020-09-02T18:04:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T13:04:05","slug":"pm-directs-implementation-of-sc-verdict-on-release-of-under-trial-women-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=93212","title":{"rendered":"PM directs implementation of SC verdict on release of under-trial women prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Sep 2 (TNS): Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday directed for immediate implementation of an order of Supreme Court regarding release of under-trial and convicted women prisoners, fulfilling the criteria of the verdict.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister in a tweet, referring to Supreme Court\u2019s Order 299\/2020, said he gave the directive after a meeting with officials of Ministry of Human Rights, the Attorney General of Pakistan and legal expert Barrister Ali Zafar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have also asked for immediate reports on foreign women prisoners and women on death row for humanitarian consideration,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Human Rights had presented its committee\u2019s report on \u2018Plight of Women in Pakistan\u2019s Prisons\u2019 to the Prime Minister on August 26.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After a mtg with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mohrpakistan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mohrpakistan<\/a>, Attorney General &amp; Barrister Ali Zafar, I have asked for immediate implementation of SC order 299\/2020 for release of Under Trial women prisoners &amp; convicted women prisoners who fulfill criteria of SC Order.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImranKhanPTI\/status\/1301121438716436480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 2, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Sep 2 (TNS): Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday directed for immediate implementation of an order of Supreme Court regarding release of under-trial and convicted women prisoners, fulfilling the criteria of the verdict. The Prime Minister in a tweet, referring to Supreme Court\u2019s Order 299\/2020, said he gave the directive after a meeting with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93213,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93212\/revisions\/93213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}