In a milestone move, the Pakistan Information Commission (PIC) has educated the guard service that data about pay, annual expense, resources, advantages, advantages, post-retirement advantages and plots dispensed to officials of the military is public data and not touchy data.
The commission gave these rules to the protection service on Monday while choosing 34 bids documented by Women’s Action Forum (WAF) activists and some concerned residents who had looked for the up to referenced data from the guard service which would not give the information.Â
The individuals who had sent candidates for the data to the service incluÂded Anis Haroon, Hilda Saeed, Nighat Said Khan, Dr Abdul Hameed Nayyar, Naila Naz, Uzma Noorani, Memoona Rauf Khan, Nasreen Azhar, Nasreen L. Siddiqui, Rubina Saigol, Maria Rashid, Naila Naz, Kausar S. Khan, Nazish Brohi and Farhatullah Babar.
At that point the candidates documented the offers in the workplace of the data official to look for such data.
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The PIC told the guard service that it was the obligation of the assigned “public data official” to react to the solicitations documented by the residents under Rule 3 of the Right of Access to Information Rules, 2019.
The workplace of the data commission guided the guard service to give data looked for by the candidates inside 10 working days, and cautioned that if there should arise an occurrence of resistance punishment would be forced on the important official.
“On the off chance that the postponement is caused or some other grievance happens because of non-participation, broken or deferred reaction on piece of an official whose help was looked for by the assigned official, such official will be considered to be assigned official after endorsement of the secretary worried for reason for inconvenience of punishments under the [Right of Access to InforÂmation] Act,” the PIC choice says.
The WAF in an explanation has invited the PIC choice and said that previous solicitations were shipped off the protection service to look for the data about the head of armed force staff, lieutenant commanders, significant officers and brigadiers of the military; air boss marshal, air marshals, air bad habit marshals and commodores of the flying corps; and chief of naval operations, bad habit chief of naval operations, back chief naval officers and commodores of the naval force.
“At the point when no [positive] reaction was gotten… from the protection service, the candidates moved toward the PIC,” the WAF said.
As per the WAF, the safeguard service reacted that the data being looked for was barred from the openly available report under Section 7(e) of the Act which excluded “record identifying with protection powers, guard establishments or associated thereto and subordinate to safeguard and public security” from being disclosed.
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