Activists Demand Effective Implementation of RTI Laws
ISLAMABAD: Despite having reasonable legislation in all four provinces and federal, citizens are having obstacles in access to information in Pakistan.
Muhammad Naeem – RTI Activist from Mardan – while talking with “The Reporters” said, poor implementation of the Right to Information Laws have made it useless for a common citizen. Some of my complaints are pending before the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Commission (KPIC) from more than two years, which were supposed to be decided in 60 days as per the act.
The Abdul Wali Khan University- Mardan from last two years is reluctant to share the information about the total fee collected from the students for the issuance of student cards and University policy in this regard, Naeem maintained.
He went on to say that the Information Commission closes citizen appeals even when the citizen is provided with incomplete and irrelevant information in order to demonstrate their performance to the civil society organisations.
Source: The Reporters
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