KARACHI: Sindh ministers while terming pictures of inhuman behavior with minor inmates in prisons of Sindh as false and based on rumors and disinformation said that the best environment was being provided to minor inmates kept in jails along with their mothers.
Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon, Food Minister Mukesh Kumar Chawla, Adviser to Chief Minister Sindh on Prisons Ajaz Jakhrani and Special Assistant to Chief Minister Sindh on Media Affairs Fahad Haroon, in a joint press conference here clarified that rumours pertaining to prisons of Sindh were being spread on social media and pictures of Afghan children going viral, were neither true nor of any prison in the province including Landhi or Women prison.
Sharjeel Memon informed that 129 under-trial Afghan women and 178 children were in prisons in Sindh and those children were not arrested but they live with their mothers in jail according to law and court orders as prison rules allow female prisoners to keep children aged up to 7 years with them.
Illegal immigrants were not allowed to live in any country and were taken into custody all over the world, he argued adding that, likewise in Sindh illegal immigrants were arrested and presented in the courts and now they were in jail on a court order.
Sindh government’s stance on illegal immigrants was clear and it must not be associated with Afghan nationality as women from Nigeria, Bangladesh and other countries were also imprisoned in Sindh, he said.
Courts have sentenced 54 women for two months which would complete in the first week of January and then they would be deported with the help of the federal government, he informed.
The law of the land did not allow illegal immigrants buy and sell properties while illegal immigrants found involved in crimes would be dealt with according to the law regardless of their nationality, he maintained.
On the occasion, videos and pictures of children’s jail were also shown to the media and information minister invited media representatives to visit the Juvenile Jail immediately after the press conference along with the Adviser to CM for Jails.
“Show the nation and the entire world that no one is treated like this in the jails of Sindh and the best environment was being provided to the children there,” he urged adding that minor inmates were being provided with the best food, education and health facilities in prisons.
He said that a delegation of the National Commission for Human Rights, headed by Chairperson Rabia Jawaria Agha, visited the women and children’s prison on December 9, 2022 and they lauded the facilities and environment provided in the prison.
The information minister speaking on the supply and prices of flour in Sindh said that despite financial restraints provincial government was providing a subsidy of billions of rupees to ensure the availability of flour at Rs.65 per kg.
The subsidized flour was being provided to five lac households on a daily basis from September 15 and it would continue till March, he said and suggested that those who want to buy flour at a low price should buy it from the Sindh government stalls.
Mukesh Kumar Chawla said that daily 125,000 bags of flour were being provided at 198 points in Karachi, including shops, stalls and mobile shops while 350,000 bags of flour were being provided daily in Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas, Larkana and other divisions of Sindh.
After a number of complaints received in Hyderabad, flour points have been increased to 20 in Hyderabad, he said adding that complaints had also been received in Karachi and surveillance was being increased to redress them.
On a question about LG elections in Karachi, Sharjeel Memon said that Pakistan People’s Party and Sindh government wanted elections to be held on time and they are ready for it.
Formation of new alliances was a positive development and it would make the contest more competitive, he said adding that PPP has no issue with that.
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