ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa has scheduled a hearing for a petition seeking disclosure of the Supreme Court’s staff details. The three-judge bench, presided over by the chief justice, will convene on September 27 to address the petition filed by citizen Mukhtar Ahmed Ali. This petition challenges the decision made by the […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Information Commission (PIC) promptly facilitated a citizen’s access to property records spanning 50 years in just one month, underscoring the commission’s strong commitment to upholding the Right of Access to Information Act, 2017, and ensuring the public’s fundamental right to information. According to details, Sarfraz A. Bhatti, a concerned citizen, sought assistance […]
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 […]
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 […]
Islamabad: Pakistan Information Commission (PIC), a body entrusted by law with the assignment of ensuring the citizens’ right to know, is tasting the medicine it has been prescribing for others: to share the information. Now, as it has been asked to share the information about one of its three commissioners, the PIC has started dilly-dallying […]
The Sindh Information Commission (SIC) has imposed a penalty of a fine equal to 10 per cent of basic pay upon registrar of the Sindh Service Tribunal for not providing information to a citizen under Section 15 of the Sindh Transparency and Right to Information Act, 2016. The Sindh Information Commission had issued several notices […]
The Punjab Health Department issued a notification on June 16, 2023, announcing the closure of 62 government dispensaries out of 114 in Faisalabad, effective from July 1, 2023. The notice described the decision to close the dispensaries as “compliance with the orders” of the provincial Ombudsman Punjab. However, when this correspondent submitted a request to […]
“Under the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Right to Information Act, 2013, when the concerned institution does not provide information, a complaint can be submitted to the RTI Commission. However, the commission is also involved in not providing information,” said Musarratullah Jan, a journalist from Peshawar. Jan mentioned that he has been associated with journalism for the last […]
LAHORE: The Punjab Information Commission has said the attitude of the Lahore High Court (LHC) towards the implementation of access to Information Law is deplorable. The commission said the LHC has not responded to the requests made by the Constitution and law to provide information, including salaries and benefits of judges, despite the passage of […]
Instead of replying to the police encounters queries of a Faisalabad citizen on the direction of Chief Information Commissioner Punjab (ICP), the police summoned the citizen for an inquiry. The police approach enraged the ICP, Mehboob Qadir Shah who issued orders to the Inspector General (IG) of Police Punjab to ensure the timely provision of […]
LAHORE: The Punjab Information Commission fined Rs 50,000 to the Excise Headquarters Director for not disclosing information on expenses on transport used by the Excise DG during 2021-22. Chief Information Commissioner Mehboob Qadir Shah while delivering the verdict in the Shahbaz Akmal Advocate v. DG Excise case, said the lawyer had requested an inspection of […]
The Sindh Information Commission (SIC) has directed the Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) to make public the Experts Committee Meeting held for the deliberation of comments filed by the public regarding the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report of the Ocean Ninety9 project. This decision comes after well-known Right to Information (RTI) activist, Dr. Syed Raza […]
LAHORE/DUBAI: Journalist Hamza Azhar Salam has refused to apologise to Bahria Town Chairman Malik Riaz after the latter issued a legal notice demanding an apology and 10 billion rupees in damages. In a legal notice sent by Azhar Siddique, who also represents Imran Khan and Farah Gogi, Malik Riaz alleged that The Pakistan Daily‘s […]
The Sindh High Court (SHC) has directed the chief secretary to submit a progress report mentioning steps being taken to implement the Sindh Transparency and Right to Information Act. The direction came recently on a petition seeking the implementation of the Section 6 of the law that bound public bodies to proactively disclose information. The […]
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