{"id":11978,"date":"2025-10-01T14:01:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T14:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/10\/01\/presidential-clemency-frees-paraplegic-prisoner\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T14:01:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T14:01:34","slug":"presidential-clemency-frees-paraplegic-prisoner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/10\/01\/presidential-clemency-frees-paraplegic-prisoner\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential clemency frees paraplegic prisoner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 1, 2025, <strong>Abdul Basit<\/strong>, a paraplegic prisoner who had been on death row, was released from Faisalabad Central Prison after being granted presidential clemency under <em>Article 45<\/em> of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The clemency followed a formal recommendation by Prime Minister <strong>Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif<\/strong> on humanitarian and constitutional grounds, with the Prime Minister\u2019s leadership and personal commitment cited as central to securing the outcome.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Minister for Law, Justice and Human Rights, <strong>Senator Azam Nazeer Tarar<\/strong>, remained actively engaged throughout the process while the Ministry of Human Rights worked closely with the Punjab Prison Department to finalise the matter and effect the release.<\/p>\n<p>At the direction of the Prime Minister and the Minister for Human Rights, Parliamentary Secretary <strong>Ms. Saba Sadiq<\/strong> travelled to Faisalabad Central Prison to meet Abdul Basit; she said she had been specially sent to convey the government\u2019s decision and expressed sympathy to the family of the victim, noting that while their pain cannot be lessened, the decision reflects the spirit of justice and humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Basit\u2019s disability and prolonged confinement under death row conditions had drawn public attention and repeated calls for compassionate consideration. The application of presidential clemency addresses those concerns and demonstrates coordination between federal authorities and the Punjab prison authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The use of Presidential clemency in this case, invoked on humanitarian and constitutional grounds, underscores ongoing attention in Pakistan to human rights considerations within the justice and prison systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential clemency secures release of paraplegic Abdul Basit from Faisalabad Central Prison after PM recommendation on humanitarian grounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}