Consumer Rights Commission of Pakistan (CRCP)

PESHAWAR, Aug 20: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Tuesday made public the salient features of the proposed Ehtesab Commission, including wide-ranging powers to eliminate corruption and corrupt practices from the public sector in the province.
The proposed accountability body is to be set up through an ordinance to be promulgated by the governor, while the government has already announced Rs200 million for its operationalisation until Sept 15....

LAHORE, Aug 23: Representatives of civil society organisations on Friday rejected the draft Punjab Freedom of Information Bill 2013, describing it as a “disabler law” having no mention of the status of whistleblowers.
Maximised time of redressal mechanism, long list of arbitrary “exemptions”, safeguarding many public domain information with the notion of “national defence or security”, “public order” and “public interest”, concealing commercial interest of a public...

ISLAMABAD: The PML-N government has produced a toothless Freedom of Information (FOI) law draft, subsequently approved by a Senate Committee. Other than providing a weak enforcement mechanism, it has proposed punishment for those who go to appeal on...

The fact that Right to Information (RTI) laws are in place in Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) should be welcomed and replicated in the rest of the country. This was stated by Consumer Rights Commission of Pakistan (CRCP) Secretary General Abrar Hafeez...