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Order on Appeal No.060-06/19 Mukhtar Ahmed Ali Vs Supreme Court of Pakistan

This commission concurs with the argument of the Appellant that “Registrar Office letter is of administrative nature and does not make a convincing case for denying access to information to citizens of Pakistan in the light of logical reasoning or court judgments passed in the context of Article 19A of the Constitution or the Right of Access to Information Act 2017”.

Each public institution performs certain core functions. This commission holds that if citizens’ right of access to information in matters of public importance pertaining to superior judiciary is restricted on the grounds that it would impact its independence and core functions, the same grounds would be relevant in the case of all public institutions”.

 

This commission is of the view that the question of access to the requested information pertaining to the total sanctioned strength of staff members of Supreme Court of Pakistan, total vacancies in the Supreme Court of Pakistan against different pay-scales/ positions, number of staff members who are not regular but have been engaged on daily-wage basis or through short-term or long-term contracts against various positions/pay-scales, number and types of positions created anew since January 1, 2017, total number of female, persons with disabilities,  transgender persons working with Supreme Court of Pakistan against various positions/pay-scales and certified copy of the latest approved Service Rules of the Supreme Court of Pakistan is a matter of public importance. Furthermore, Section 5 of the Act pertaining to the proactive disclosure of information is also relevant in the instant appeal when juxtaposed with the requested information.

It is pertinent to mention here that this commission has maintained through its different Orders that the information, proactively published under Section 5 of the Right of Access to Information Act 2017, should be ‘accessible’ for all citizens, including the blind, low-vision, physically disabled, speech and hearing impaired and people with other disabilities.

 

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