• Chief ministers commit to reducing unnecessary incarceration, improving infrastructure • CJP terms reforms ‘shared institutional responsibility’ • Maryam says prisons should be reflective of values, effectiveness of justice system • Afridi calls for reforms to ‘start from Adiala’ ISLAMABAD: The provinces on Thursday reaffirmed their commitment to sustained prison reforms, with all the chief ministers acknowledging that these reforms were not just an administrative necessity, but a constitutional and public safety imperative. The National Conference on Prison Reforms, hosted by the Supreme Court under the auspices of the National Judicial (Policy-Making) Committee (NJPMC), aimed at building a nationally coordinated prison reform framework with the provincial governments. While signing the Islamabad Dec­laration on Prison Reforms, Punjab CM Maryam Nawaz, Sindh CM Murad Ali Shah, Khyber Pakh­tu­n­k­hwa CM Sohail Afridi, and Balo­chistan CM Sarfraz Bugti affirmed the importance of prison reforms.