PRESS RELEASE Representatives of NGOs strongly opposed the proposed amendments to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Right to Information Ordinance 2013 through which the provincial assembly has been exempted from accessing to basic information. Addressing a news conference at Peshawar Press Club, the…
PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: The much trumpeted Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Right to Information (RTI) law, 2013 still has a bumpy way to go before it makes it into the statutory book. After the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf drafted the law, it was promulgated as…
PRESS RELEASE A study conducted by the Center for Governance and Public Accountability (CGPA), Peshawar on the current education budget for Peshawar district has suggested changes in the overall mechanism of allocation of funds. Financial years 2009-2010 to 2012-2013 were…
PRESS RELEASE Participants at a training workshop on “Budget Advocacy and Accountability” have stressed the need for disclosure of budget document and other financial information to general public through various means, which is now essential after promulgation of Right to…
PRESS RELEASE Wednesday, September 04, 2013 – Peshawar—Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Secretary Information and Public Relations Azmat Hanif Orakzai has said that access to information was the due right of every human being and the KP Right to Information Ordinance (RTIO) will…
PRESS RELEASE Participants at an awareness seminar highlighted the significance of promulgation of Right to Information Ordinance in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and demanded the law should be extended to divisional headquarters, Provincially Administrative Tribal Areas (Pata) and Fata also. “The access…
PRESS RELEASE Participants at an awareness seminar on Tuesday demanded the Right to Information (RTI) Ordinance be extended to divisional headquarters, Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (Pata) and Fata as well. A seminar titled ‘Right to Information Legislation in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P)…
PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: The government has amended its draft on the Right to Information (RTI) Ordinance, after the initial blueprint was criticised for certain inadequacies. K-P Governor Engineer Shaukatullah Khan, who signed the ordinance forwarded by the provincial government on…
PRESS RELEASE Welcoming the promulgation of “Right to Information Ordinance 2013 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa”, a civil society organisation has demanded that all relevant stakeholders to be consulted before its formal approval by the provincial legislator assembly, to make it more…