to the Adjutant-General Headquarters, Rawalpindi. Director of
Personnel, Naval Headquarters, Karachi or Director of Personnel,
Air Force Headquarters, Peshawar liberty as the case may be, for
disposal.
Petitions for clemency,
Rule101. Every prisoner shall be at liberty to submit a
petition to Government for clemency, and shall, if he desires,
be accorded reasonable facilities for preparing and submitting
such a petition. Except in the case of petition against the
execution of sentences of death, all such petitions must be
accompanied by copies of the judgment of the Court of
conviction and of any superior Court, which may have dealt
with the case on appeal or revision. These will be supplied by
the petitioners themselves:
Note. 1. Once a petition for clemency has. been rejected
no second or subsequent petition shall be forwarded to the
Provincial Government for consideration unless there are fresh
grounds, which the Superintendent shall himself certify quoting
the previous references.
Note 2. While forwarding the petition for clemency of a
prisoner his mercy petition role on the prescribed form alongwith
a report by the Medical Officer on the present state of health of
the prisoner shall also be sent. Any outstanding achievement
gained by a prisoner such as in education or industry etc., shall
also be brought to the notice of the Government.
Note. 3. All petitions for clemency shall ordinarily, be
addressed to the Governor of the Province and shall be routed
through the Inspector General of prisons.
Appeals and petitions to Supreme Court.
Rule102. (i) Appeals can only be preferred to the Supreme
Court of Pakistan in pursuance of special leave to appeal granted
by the Court upon a petition in that behalf presented by or on
behalf of the intending appellant.
(ii) All petitions and applications for special leave to appeal
shall ordinarily be lodged in the Supreme Court within 30 days
from the date of the judgment or order against which appeal is to
be filed: provided that the Supreme Court may for sufficient cause,
extend the time. For this purpose an application for condonation of
delay setting forth cogent reasons shall have to be filed alongwith
the petition of appeal.
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(iii) The petitioner, if he is in prison, may either direct his