PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: Speakers at a seminar on Tuesday urged the provincial government to appoint the two remaining information commissioners so the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Information Commission can become functional. The government was also urged to remove anomalies in the K-P Right…
PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: On paper, the soon-to-be-enacted Right to Public Services law is bound to improve the quality of governance in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P). But experts and officials of the provincial law department said the present draft needs to incorporate the names…
PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: Though Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) recently introduced the right to information (RTI) legislation in a step towards greater transparency, the neighbouring tribal belt still has a long way to go before any such law is put in place. Civil…
PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: Despite popular perception, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s (K-P) Right to Information (RTI) law is still not in place. As promised by the law, the public still has no facility to access information regarding any subject. On Monday, official sources confirmed to The…
PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: The much trumpeted Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Right to Information (RTI) law, 2013 still has a bumpy way to go before it makes it into the statutory book. After the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf drafted the law, it was promulgated as…
PRESS RELEASE A study conducted by the Center for Governance and Public Accountability (CGPA), Peshawar on the current education budget for Peshawar district has suggested changes in the overall mechanism of allocation of funds. Financial years 2009-2010 to 2012-2013 were…
PRESS RELEASE Participants at an awareness seminar on Tuesday demanded the Right to Information (RTI) Ordinance be extended to divisional headquarters, Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (Pata) and Fata as well. A seminar titled ‘Right to Information Legislation in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P)…
PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: The government has amended its draft on the Right to Information (RTI) Ordinance, after the initial blueprint was criticised for certain inadequacies. K-P Governor Engineer Shaukatullah Khan, who signed the ordinance forwarded by the provincial government on…
PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: In order to ensure transparency and curb corruption in government departments, the Centre for Governance and Public Accountability (CGPA), a civil society organisation, has asked the Khyber- Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government to take practical steps for enactment of…
PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s (K-P) planning and development department’s researcher Shah Mehmud said government officials dodge every attempt at disclosing financial information. “Even a circular notice is not shared with the public,” Mehmud said, speaking at a seminar on ‘Comparative…