In the instant appeal, the Respondent, FPSC failed to provide written acknowledgement of the request for information filed by the citizen as required under Section 10 (1) of the Act. The Respondent only submitted response after the intervention of this commission.
This commission is satisfied with the stance of FPSSC when it states: “recruitment process against these posts were stopped due to Court Orders vide WP No.1103/2017 dated 7.4.2017”.
This commission also holds that the Respondent, FPSC has only partially addressed the request for information of the Appellant. For example, it has not responded to, inter alia, Item No. v “the status of remaining posts of Pakistan Bureau of Statistic Advertise din April 2017 by FPSC along with these 13 posts? The Respondent, FPSC was expected to go through each item of the requested information and address each through its response based on record available.