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PTA restores mobile data services in GB

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ISLAMABAD/Gilgit: After a 16-day suspension amid religious tensions in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), mobile data services were fully restored across the region on Monday. The services were suspended on Sept 1. In a letter addressed to the Secretary of the Minis­try of Interior, the Gilgit-Baltistan home and prisons department officially communicated its decisio­n to restore 4G cellular inte­r­net services […]


RTI: SIC Imposes Penalty on Registrar SST for Withholding Information

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n a significant development, Mr. Waqas Abid Baloch, Registrar of the Sindh Service Tribunal (SST), has been penalized with a 10% deduction from his basic pay for failing to provide requested information to a citizen, Mr. Faheem Ali. The decision came after a prolonged legal battle between Mr. Ali and the SST, which raised questions […]


Radio Pakistan achieves significant milestones in ‘digital migration’: Solangi

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ISLAMABAD   –   Caretaker Minister for In­formation and Broadcast­ing Murtaza Solangi, in his address to an international conference in Amsterdam on Saturday, highlighted the significant achieve­ments made by Radio Paki­stan in its digital migration journey. Addressing the international conference on Radio Resource Control and Management via Zoom, he said Radio Pakistan had achieved significant mile­stones in […]


LAW: HOW CAN THE RTI LAWS BE FIXED?

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In 2010, the insertion of Article 19A in the Constitution, through the 18th Amendment, was a significant development for promoting transparency, accountability and for considering access to information as a constitutional right in Pakistan. Article 19A guarantees the right to information (RTI) and enables citizens to access information held by public bodies, subject to reasonable […]