• July 14, 2023
• General News, Right to Information

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 […]

• July 13, 2023
• General News, Right to Information

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 […]

• July 9, 2023
• General News, Right to Information

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 […]

• June 19, 2023
• Right to Information

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 […]

• June 17, 2023
• Right to Information

  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 […]

• June 12, 2023
• Right to Information

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 […]

• June 9, 2023
• General News, Right to Information

The Azad Jammu and Kashmir High Court’s Mirpur Circuit has accepted a writ petition demanding the enforcement of the Right to Information in Azad Kashmir. Justice Sardar Ejaz Khan, presiding over the case, admitted the petition for regular hearing. Notices have been issued to the respondents, including the government of AJ&K, Chief Secretary, Minister of […]

• June 9, 2023
• General News, Right to Information

Dara Adam Khel: Addressing a seminar on the ‘Right to Information Act (RTI) 2013’ at FATA University, Syed Saadat Jahan, Assistant Director of Communication at KP Information Commission (KPIC), emphasized the transformative power of the RTI law in integrating erstwhile FATA/Newly Merged Districts (NMDs) into the legal and governance structures of Pakistan. The RTI Act […]

• June 2, 2023
• Right to Information

PESHAWAR: Right to Information (RTI) can empower citizens to attain basic human rights, said speakers at a day-long seminar in Tank on Thursday.The seminar was aimed at training the village council secretaries as RTI ambassadors in their domains to educate citizens on RTI as their basic human right.Syed Saadat Jahan, assistant director, communication, was the […]

• May 25, 2023
• Right to Information

Peshawar      –    Right to Information Act (RTI) is a powerful tool to fight against corruption and an effective means to promote democratic ideology. It makes the government system accountable to the public. These observations were made by Syed Saadat Jahan, Assistant Director of Communication, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Commission (KPIC) while speaking in a seminar held […]

• May 18, 2023
• Right to Information, Views and Opinion

Article 19A, access to information and empowered citizens are hugely overused and under-implemented expressions in Pakistan. Numerous Information Commissions, set up to facilitate ordinary citizens in gaining access to information, are frequently failing to see the forest for the trees, and remain insistent on running modern data and knowledge-based organisations by the 18th century colonial […]

• May 2, 2023
• Right to Information

The Punjab Information Commission has directed the Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) of Multan to provide copies of complaints and closed inquiries to the applicant, Shakeel Baloch, considering the documents as public information. Initially, ACE Multan had refused to provide the requested information, citing potential harm to the prevention or detection of crime, the apprehension or prosecution […]

• April 21, 2023
• Right to Information

  ISLAMABAD     –    President of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) Afzal Butt said that all journalists across the country and abroad are standing with Rana Abrar Khalid. Addressing a press conference at Islamabad Press Club the other day, PFUJ chief paid rich tributes to the wellknown seasoned journalist Rana Abrar Khalid. He said that […]

• April 21, 2023
• Right to Information

ISLAMABAD     –    President of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) Afzal Butt said that all journalists across the country and abroad are standing with Rana Abrar Khalid. Addressing a press conference at Islamabad Press Club the other day, PFUJ chief paid rich tributes to the wellknown seasoned journalist Rana Abrar Khalid. He said that Rana […]