Sindh CS, Federal Ombudsman chair top meeting on jail reforms.

KARACHI -- Chief Secretary Sindh Dr Muhammad Sohail Rajput and Federal Ombudsman Ejaz Ahmed Qureshi jointly chaired an important meeting at the Sindh Secretariat on Tuesday regarding reforms in the province's jails

In the meeting, Secretary Law Ali Ahmad Baloch, Nasir Soomro Special Secretary Home, Muhammad Nasir Khan DIG Prison and other relevant officers of the federal and provincial governments participated.

Rajput told the Federal Ombudsman that reforms are being brought to prisons on the recommendations of the Federal Ombudsman. 'Departments of Education, Health, Social Welfare and Civil Society are working for reforms in the prisons of Sindh,' he said.

He further informed that oversight committees had also been formed and those committees include judiciary, civil society, education and health experts and philanthropists which share their recommendations with the Sindh government to bring

He further stated that legal aid was also available to prisoners in Sindh, for which...

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