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The Challenge Of The Healthcare Budget

PRESS RELEASE The public sector healthcare spending needs to increase with the growing population. Patchy, under-resourced and unequally distributed preventive and curative healthcare services are one of the contributing factors in perpetuation of intergenerational poverty. The trend, if not disrupted…

Govt Asked To Appoint Chief Information Commissioner

PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: The Centre for Governance and Public Accountability has demanded the appointment of the chief information commissioner and information commissioner (legal) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Right to Information Commission.   Through a statement, Muhammad Anwar, Executive Director of Centre…

KP govt plans amend to RTI

PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to amend its much-appreciated Right to Information (RTI) Act 2013 which is feared to render the law stingless besides hampering its ineffectiveness. The bill seeking amendments to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Right to…

683 cops sacrificed their lives in six years

PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: As many as 688 policemen were killed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the last six years, with 246 of them sacrificing their lives alone in the capital city. The share of Peshawar in the supreme sacrifice is 35.7…

Suggestions floated to improve services

PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: The participants of a public hearing on problems and issues in the education, health, water and sanitation sectors on Tuesday put forward suggestions for improving the situation and making the government departments more accessible to the public.…

CRTI rejects amendments to Right to Information Act

PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: Rejecting the amendments to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Right to Information Act 2013, the Coalition on Right to Information (CRTI) has presented a charter of demands aimed at restoring the status of Information Commission and ending the exemption given…

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