FREEDOM OF INFORMATION WHAT ARE RIGHTS? HISTORY OF FOI IN THE WORLD CHRONOLOGY OF FOI IN PAKISTAN FOI LEGISLATIONS IN PAKISTAN FOI LAWS BENEFITS OF FOI LIMITATIONS OF FOI APPEAL PROCESS REFERENCES

1. FREEDOM OF
INFORMATION

2. Submitted to:
Sir Ikram Ul Haq
Submitted from:
Abdullah Abbas
(17581556-026)

3. LIST OF CONTENTS
• WHAT ARE RIGHTS?
• HISTORY OF FOI IN THE WORLD
• CHRONOLOGY OF FOI IN PAKISTAN
• FOI LEGISLATIONS IN PAKISTAN
• FOI LAWS
• BENEFITS OF FOI
• LIMITATIONS OF FOI
• APPEAL PROCESS
• REFERENCES

4. WHAT ARE RIGHTS?
• A right is something a person has which people think should not be taken away. It is a
rule about what a person is allowed to do or have.
OR
• Right is defined as something is the correct, proper or moral choice or something that
is true or correct.

5. DOES EVERY CITIZEN HAVE RIGHT TO
KNOW?
‫ہے؟‬ ‫حق‬ ‫کا‬ ‫ننے‬ ‫جا‬ ‫کو‬ ‫شہری‬ ‫ہر‬ ‫کیا‬

6. “Every citizen shall have the right to have access to information
in all matters of public importance subject to regulation and
reasonable restrictions imposed by law”.
(Article 19A of the constitution of Pakistan).

7. HISTORY OF FOI IN THE WORLD
• FOI law was introduced in Sweden in 1776.
• In South Asia, India was the first one to introduce freedom of information law at the
provincial level in 1997(GOA).
• Pakistan was the first to introduce Freedom of Information Law at federal level in 1997.
• Today over 100 countries have this law.

8. CHRONOLOGY OF FOI IN PAKISTAN

9. FOI LEGISLATIONS IN PAKISTAN
• The Federal Freedom of Information Ordinance, 2002.
• Federal Freedom of Information Rules, 2004.
• Balochistan Freedom of Information Act, 2005.
• Sindh Freedom of Information Act, 2006.
• Article 19A of the constitution of Pakistan.
• KP Right to Information Act, 2013.
• The Punjab Transparacy and RTI Acts, 2013.

10. FOI LAWS
•WHO - ANY CITIZEN OF PAKISTAN
•WHOM - PUBLIC BODY
•WHAT - PUBLIC INFORMATION
•HOW - PROCEDURE

11. BENEFITS OF FOI
• Accountability
• Transparency
• Good Governce
• Rule of law
• Equity
• Effectiveness
• Participation of public in decision making

12. LIMITATIONS OF FOI
• FOI does not implement on private bodies in Pakistan.
• Record relating to defense forces. National forces.
• Record relating to the personal privacy of individual bank transactions.
• Information or documents shall not disclose to third person.

13. APPEAL PROCESS
• FIRST APPEAL BODY:
In case the requisite information is not provided by the designated Official within
21days, the applicant may file a complaint with the head of that public body who
dispose of the complaint with in 30 days of its receipt.
• SECOND APPEAL BODY:
If the head of the public body also fails to decide on the appeal within 30 days, the
complaintcanPfileOanOappealOwithOtheOfederal/provincial/TaxOorOBanking
Ombudsman(Mohtasib) as the case may be.The ombudsman has 60 days to decide
on the complaint.
• THIRD APPEAL BODY:
If the ombudsman rejects the complaint, the applicant can appeal to the president
Pakistan or to the governor.

14. REFERENCES
• Mustonen, Juha, (2006). The world first Freedom of Information Act. Kokkola, Anders
Chydenius Foundation’s Publication 2.
• Eness M. Miyanda Chitumbo & Fabian Kakana (2009). Promoting Good Governance
through Freedom of access to information and censorship to information. Zambia.
• Center for peace and development initiative of Pakistan, (2008). State of transparency
and freedom of information in Pakistan. Asia Foundation.
• Brigadier (R) Ahmed Salim, Freedom of Information.
WEBSITES:
• http://www.foiapakistan.com/index.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy
• http://www.businessdictonary.com/definition.html
• http://www.pakistani.org/pakistan/constitution/part2.ch1.html