RIGHT TO INFORMATION LAWS At their core, right to information laws, whether domestic, international or foreign, reflect the idea that government is meant to serve the
During the demolition of the controversial Nasla Tower in Karachi, video footage appeared on social media showing demolition workers involved in dangerous work at great heights.
News reports highlighted that the Federal Government in 2009 had struck an agreement with K-Electric whereby it had written-off Rs. 31 billion owed by the power
During the monsoon rains of July 2020, a part of the historical Bandukwala building on Karachi’s I.I. Chundrigar Road, collapsed. All buildings within the Cantonment area
Given large-scale power outages in Karachi, which are not only an inconvenience to domestic users in the extreme summer heat but also hamper industrial growth, PILAP
The city of Karachi faces large-scale urban flooding each monsoon season. The more it rains, the worse the flooding and the more serious the resulting damage.
During the Covid19 pandemic in 2020, news came to light that the Metropolitan Corporation of Islamabad (MCI) had not been providing personal protective equipment (PPE) to
In July 2020 news reports drew attention to the exponential amount of Rs. 16 billion made as tax refunds to a select few companies by a
In July 2020, the Cabinet Division made public the assets of the Advisors to the Prime Minister. While this show of transparency is laudable, in the
A couple of years ago a video of a Black Bear in a state of zoochosis at the Bahria Orchard Zoo in Lahore went viral. Zoochosis
In June 2020 there were reports of harassment and abuse taking place at the hands of teachers and staff at certain schools in Lahore. PILAP wrote
Courts in Pakistan are heavily backlogged with cases. It takes years for a case to make its way from beginning to end. This causes delays in
In 2020, news reports stated that Cantonment Board Clifton was planning a beach development along a stretch of Seaview Beach in Karachi. No Environmental Impact Assessment
Every year scores of stray dogs are brutally killed in Karachi alone as a way of regulating their population. This method is not only illegal and
A couple of years ago news of blatant child abuse surfaced from Rawalpindi in an incident in which a seven-year-old domestic worker had been beaten to
When the much-highlighted Nasla Tower in Karachi was being demolished, video footage emerged showing labourers engaged in dangerous demolition work without any safety equipment. They could
There have been several mining accidents across the country and predominantly in Balochistan and KPK during the past few years which have resulted in death and
Given Pakistan’s looming water crisis and the critical state of its water sources, PILAP wrote RTIs to the Ministries of Water Resources and Climate Change asking
The Government of Pakistan routinely receives gifts from foreign states. The gifts are the property of the state and are to be held on trust for
PILAP wrote an RTI request to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs inquiring into the recommendations given to the provinces for the issuance of Houbara Bustard hunting
