In this case, the Appellant exercised his fundamental and constitutional right of access to information in a matter of public importance affecting him not only in personal capacity but the requested information in the instant appeal is for public good. The commission ordered the Ministry of Housing and… Read More »Appeal No. 116-09/19: A H Nayyar Vs Ministry of Housing and Works
The commission ordered the Senate of Pakistan Secretariat to provide information about total number of sanctioned posts, total number of employee’s male and female ratio of employees and total number of transgender and disabled employees to the appellant. Download Order
The appellant has requested the copy of the Master Plan of Port Qasim Authority. The authority informed the Commission that requested information is available at Port Qasim Authority’s official website link. The Commission has held that the official record uploaded on the official website link of the public… Read More »Order on Appeal No 037-03/19 Dr. Syed Raza Ali Gardezi vs Chairman Port Qasim Authority
The commission noted with grave concern that a designated Public Information Officer had caused inordinate delay in providing the requested information and as such hampered the exercise of the right to information of a citizen. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs was directed to provide information about the foreign… Read More »Appeal No. 068-06/19: Moonus Kayinat Zahra Vs Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The commission observed that the power rests with the persons who has the right and the ability to ask questions. A public official cannot wrest this power from a citizen by asking reasons for providing the requested information. The Human Organ Transplant Authority was directed to provide finalized… Read More »Appeal No. 159/11/19: Nadeem Umer Vs Human Organ Transplant Authority
The commission observed that finalized enquiry reports are public documents and directed the Ministry of Climate Change to provide enquiry reports conducted against the officials / officers of Environment Protection Agency (Pak-EPA) from 1st Jan 2017 to August 01, 2019 that have been finalized. The Ministry of Climate… Read More »Appeal No. 113-09/19: Shehzad Ahmed Khan Vs Ministry of Climate Change
The commission observed that a public body cannot ask an applicant to visit office to collect information and ordered to provide audit reports that have been finalized. Download Order
The commission decided that that minutes of the meetings are exempted from disclosure but final decisions of the public body are not exempted from disclosure. The commission order the public body to share final decisions after severing them from the portions of meetings minutes containing opinions of the… Read More »Appeal No. 110/09/19: Ziauddin Ahmad Vs Trading Corporation of Pakistan
The commission decided that the requested information regarding individual tax payers/traders cannot be provided as it is commercially sensitive information belonging to the third party. Download Order
The information was sought about a copy of law/by-laws/ rules regarding the registration, regulation and monitoring of IGNOs and Foreign Funding Agencies, details of US based INGOs and US Government Funding Agencies and details of local NGOs and Private entities receiving funds from US based INGOs and Government… Read More »Appeal No. 027-03/19: Mohammad Bilal Vs Ministry of Interior