Let us examine how we are protecting and promoting rights of this highly vulnerable segment of society

The Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA), under section 34 of the PECA, has authority to remove or block any information

Successive governments continue the colonial era patron-client relationship between the rulers and the people

Explicit constitutional protection accorded to the right to information is commendable

While protecting disclosure of information seems to be everybody’s business, sharing information is nobody’s business

Instead of combating ignorance, we are making people unenlightened by reinforcing negative perceptions of disabilities

The law says that filing information requests will be free and that there will be no fee for first 20 pages.