LAHORE: The Punjab Information Commission has reprimanded the Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board’s Public Information Officer (PIO) for negligence in official responsibilities and directed the Managing Director to ensure proper steps for implementing the Right to Information (RTI) law. According to details, hearing of a complaint title “Shahbaz Akmal Jandran Vs Punjab Curriculum and Textbook
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Islamabad: The right of access to information, defined as the right to seek, receive and impart information held by public bodies, is a fundamental right guaranteed under Article 19A of the constitution. In order to protect this fundamental right, the federal and provincial governments have enacted legislations and established RTI Commissions in Peshawar, Lahore, Karachi
Serving and former information commissioners termed the state information commission's decisions “wholly unconstitutional”, insisted that they could trigger a "dangerous" trend and said that some SC rulings were to blame for this constitutional overreach.