AFTER years of litigation, redrafts and deliberations with the relevant stakeholders and bureaucracy, Punjab finally enacted the Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities Act in December 2022. This did not come easy, though. In 2017, my friend (advocate Ali Chughtai) and I reunited at a well-known eatery in Lahore. The experience would have been great, but […]
LAHORE: Justice Asim Hafeez of the Lahore High Court has ordered the government to make the complete record of Toshakhana from 1990 to 2001 public, despite opposition from the government. The high court has directed the authorities to release all the records, including the name of the friendly country who gifted the items, saying nothing […]
Peshawar: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Information Commission is currently facing a backlog of 1,500 appeals, and the pendency is increasing with each passing day. The Commission has requested the KP government to make key amendments in the KP RTI law, but the file containing the proposed amendments has gone missing. The amendments are related to […]
KARACHI: Chief Information Commissioner of the Pakistan Information Commission Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui has underlined the need for awareness regarding the law of right to information (RTI). Delivering an awareness lecture organised by the Karachi Press Club on its premises, he said that easy access to the information in citizens’ life largely contributed to good governance. […]
Sahiwal: The Punjab government has reversed its earlier decision to remove members of the Punjab Information Commission, according to a new notification issued on Thursday. This came after the Information and Culture Department of Punjab issued a controversial notification on February 13, which removed the Chief Information Commissioner, Mahboob Qadir Shah, and Information Commissioner, Dr. […]
ISLAMABAD – Rights activists have criticised proposed amendments to the Right of Access to Information Act, 2017 that has been moved yet again as a private member’s bill in the Senate which elapsed a couple of times earlier. They say the amendment would limit the scope of the right to information law by excluding […]
The Pakistan Information Commission (PIC) on Wednesday held 21 hearings pertaining to the Right of Access to Information Act 2017 and issued a show-cause notice to Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) for not responding to the information request of the appellant and the notices of the Commission. While chairing the proceedings of the Commission, Chief Information […]
Despite being a law that can serve journalists in their investigative work and being a right of all citizens, there remains a lack of awareness and implementation of the Right to Information (RTI) law in Pakistan. In an effort to increase an understanding of the use of the RTI law, Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) organized […]
Right to Information Centre was inaugurated at the Deputy Commissioner’s office here on Friday. Chief Information Commissioner Punjab, Mahboob Qadir Shah opened the center which is part of the chain of centers across the province. DC Tahir Wattoo, and other district government officials were in attendance on this occasion. Speaking to the media after opening, […]
The Punjab Information Commission (PIC) on Thursday directed the Punjab Assembly to update its website with an easily accessible format for citizens to retrieve information about their representatives. During a hearing of a complaint filed by this scribe, the Public Information Officer (PIO) of the Punjab Assembly Secretariat, Muhammad Ali, admitted that though the required […]
OKARA: The Punjab Information Commission (PIC) on Thursday established a Right to Information (RTI) Centre at Okara. The center, located in the Deputy Commissioner’s Office, is designed to facilitate citizens in accessing information from provincial public bodies in Okara. This is in addition to centers that have already been established in Faisalabad and Nankana. Punjab […]
Chief Secretary Balochistan, Abdul Aziz Uqaili said the government would establish information commission under Right to Information Act 2021 soon in the province to ensure easy access to information to the masses. The top civil officer of the province said in a tweet that rules of the commission have been sent to Balochistan cabinet for […]
ISLAMABAD: The Prime Minister Mian Shehbaz Sharif has appointed the Chief Information Commissioner and an Information Commissioner for the Pakistan Information Commission in accordance with Section 18 of the Right to Access to Information Act, 2017. According to notifications issued by the Establishment Division on Tuesday, Mr. Shoaib Ahmad Siddiqui has been appointed as Chief […]
Establishment of District RTI Centers will help to protect the basic right of the common man, RTI Act is actually the spirit of real democracy, the freedom of Information Act is a precursor to public revolution, Instructions have been issued to all deputy commissioners in Punjab for the establishment of RTI centers, transparency is a […]
