Sindh teaching vocational skills to prisoners: Murtaza Wahab.

KARACHI -- Spokesman for Sindh government and Adviser to Sindh Chief Minister on Law and Environment, Murtaza Wahab, has said that the Sindh province ensures the fundamental rights to prisoners and seeks to make them useful members of the society.

He said, 'Sindh is the only province in Pakistan which ensures the fundamental rights to prisoners and seeks to correct them, teach them vocational skills so that they can financially survive once out of jail.' He stated this in a tweet on Friday. He said that the Sindh Prisons and Correctional Facilities Act 2019 ensures all of this.

86 inmates test positive for As many as 86 prisoners and 11 staffer have tested positive for the novel coronavirus at Sukkur Central Jail on Friday.

According to the District Health Officer, tests of 1,100 prisoners of Central Jail Sukkur were conducted out of which 86 inmates were tested positive for the pandemic. Moreover, 11 employees of the jail were also detected with...