Category Press Release

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…

Proactive disclosure of information

PRESS RELEASE A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both — James Madison The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) and Punjab Right to Information (RTI) Commissions…

FATA reforms: busting some myths

PRESS RELEASE Why do proposals for Fata reforms come with so many warnings and cautions? Arguments against Fata reforms are often built on the premise that existing governance structures — if there are any in Fata — have evolved over a period…

Law on right to information not being extended to Pata

PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa senior minister for local government and rural development Inayatullah Khan on Monday complained despite repeated requests, the federal government was not extending the KP Right to Information Act 2013 to the Provincially Administrated Tribal Areas (Pata).…

Broken promises on RTI

PRESS RELEASE Till the end of the 20th century, only 23 countries had passed legislation focusing on the right to information (RTI). In contrast, in the last 15 years alone, the number of countries with RTI laws has reached 102. This rising…