PRESS RELEASE Just imagine that you and all of your family members are behind bars, and your entire village has been razed to rubble because a distant clansman of yours has committed a crime. You are not allowed to appeal…
PRESS RELEASE Dear Mr President, You may consider yourself only a ceremonial head of Pakistan’s parliamentary system, but for the country’s tribal areas, you are the real king. The cumulative area of this region surpasses that of more than 50…
PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: The Federally Administered Tribal Areas require 13,407 primary and secondary government-owned schools whereas the number of existing schools stands at 4,656. This was stated in a Fata education budget analysis report presented at a seminar in the city…
PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: The Centre for Governance and Public Accountability (CGPA) welcomed the amendment to the Right to Information act to include the K-P Assembly, within its ambit, stated a handout issued on Monday. CGPA Executive Director Muhammad Anwar said the…
PRESS RELEASE “Freedom of information is a fundamental human right and the touchstone of all the freedoms to which the United Nations is consecrated.” Resolution 59-1, First session of UN General Assembly in 1946. In 2002, Pakistan became the first country…
PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: The Centre for Governance and Public Accountability (CGPA) has thrown weight behind the decision to amend the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Right to Information Act 2013. This was stated in a press release on Wednesday. According to the document, CGPA said…
PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: The education budget for DI Khan was passed on to the Communication and Works (C&W) department during the fiscal year (FY) 2014-15. The district education officer shared this information when the Centre for Governance and Public Accountability (CGPA)…
PRESS RELEASE The Centre for Governance and Public Accountability (CGPA) has condemned the exemption of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly from the purview of the Right to Information (Amendment) Bill 2015. According to handout issued on Wednesday, CGPA Executive Director Muhammad Anwar…
PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: The budget announced by the government on Monday for fiscal year 2015-16 – Rs488 billion – is 17% higher than the ongoing year’s outlay of Rs404 billion. Of the total Rs488 billion outlay, Rs314 billion has been allocated…
PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: People from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) threatened a sit-in outside the Presidency in Islamabad if the government failed to extend the jurisdiction of superior courts. Addressing a news conference at Peshawar Press Club on Tuesday, civil…