This commission is of the view that the access to the requested information pertaining to whether or not the Karachi Port Trust provides any facility/funds to its minority/non-Muslim employees to participate in their religious activities and to visit their holy places of worship within and outside the country is a matter of public importance.
This commission is of the view that the requested information as to whether or not the Karachi Port Trust provides any facility/funds to its minority/non-Muslim employees to participate in their religious activities and to visit their holy places of worship within and outside the country is a matter of policy and if such a policy exists, its certified copy should have been provided to the Appellant as it is a public document under Section 6 (a) of the Right of Access to Information Act 2017.
Even when a public body is not in possession of the requested record/information, it is bound to intimate the same to the Appellant as required under Section 12 of the Right of Access to information Act 2017.