ISLAMABAD – A Senate Select Committee yesterday approved the Right to Information (RTI) Bill 2016. The committee met with its Chairman Senator Farhatullah Babar in the chair at the Parliament House and discussed all clauses of the draft bill in detail. It also added a new clause relating to get footage from CCTV installed at […]
ISLAMABAD: A Senate panel has passed the Right to Information Bill (RTI), 2016, seeking to ensure that relevant authorities provide written details on missing persons within three days of a request. The bill that aims to replace the toothless Freedom of Information Ordinance 2002 also includes provision for protection of whistleblowers in public sector organisations and […]
ISLAMABAD: Senate Select Committee on Right to Information (RTI) Law has agreed on the draft of the much-delayed legislation with some amendments. The committee met in the chair of Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) Senator Farhatullah Babar here on Tuesday. The members reviewed all the clauses of the RTI law and decided to give the […]
IN small but important ways, the Senate is distinguishing itself as a legislative forum in which important issues of the state are being debated. On Wednesday, a Senate select committee discussing the federal Right to Information Bill, 2016, made crucial observations about the extension of right-to-information laws to the armed forces. As several senators rightly […]
Islamabad: Non-provision of certified information under the freedom of information law and government functionaries avoidance to give version is making journalism difficult in the present era. The state of journalism in Pakistan is dismal, especially for those who believe in reporting facts, based on certified authentic information. This correspondent has filed almost one and a […]
ISLAMABAD: The Draft Elections Bill, 2017 is a combination of both progressive and regressive measures. This may turn out to be counterproductive and may not yield the desired results of improving the quality of elections. These observations were shared at a consultative meeting organised by the Free and Fair Election Network (Fafen). The bill, made public […]
PESHAWAR: Lack of interest on part of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Right to Information Commission and public information officers in the working of the electronic-RTI application system has nearly crippled the initiative launched in Sept 2015. Insiders claim that the RTI commission’s officials tasked with enforcing the relevant law are telling the people to file applications […]
PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Right to Information (RTI) Commission is unable to notify its rules and finalise amendments proposed in the law governing its working after differences emerged between the commission and the provincial law department. The K-P RTI Act was passed in November 2013, and the provincial government was to devise rules in consultation with the […]
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Defence has refused to respond to a query about the total number of amount spent on the pensions of armed forces’ retired personnel during the last five years under the provision of Freedom of Information Ordinance 2002 and termed it against the national security, and that providing the same will not […]
ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Maryam Aurangzeb on Wednesday said that the Right to Information (RTI) bill will be presented during the next session of the National Assembly. Addressing media persons at the National Press Club (NPC), Ms Aurangzeb claimed: “The RTI bill has been approved by the cabinet committee, but it […]
PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Right to Information (RTI) commission in its annual report has expressed dissatisfaction over not extending the RTI act to the Provincially-Administered Tribal Areas (PATA) and requested the federal government to extend the law to the region. The annual report, a copy of which is available with The Express Tribune, stated that “with utmost […]
ISLAMABAD – The Right to Information Bill, 2016 was tabled in the Senate when it resumed with Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani in the chair yesterday. The bill was introduced by five members from the opposition benches including Kamil Ali Agha, Farhatullah Babar, Rubina Irfan, Karim Ahmed Khawaja and Muhammad Daud Khan Achakzai. The bill was […]
ISLAMABAD: Frustrated by the inordinate delay by the government in bringing Right to Information (RTI) legislation before parliament and its efforts to circumvent the earlier-agreed draft, the opposition has decided to move the same bill as a private members’ bill in Senate, PPP Senator Farhatullah Babar told Dawn on Sunday. Mr Babar said that the […]
ISLAMABAD: In a significant move, the joint opposition has decided to introduce its own drafted Right to Information (RTI) bill as a private piece of legislation in the Senate tomorrow (Monday) after having waited for the government’s promised initiative for three years. The title of the bill is: The Right to Information Bill, 2016 for […]
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