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Roadmap to Freedom

The Road to Freedom is open! A map is available. We only have to drive it. The Center for Information Minister Kaira, CPDI & FNF
Information Minister Kaira, CPDI & FNF Peace and Development Initiatives (CPDI) sketched this “Roadmap for the Implementation of Freedom of Information” together with stakeholders and civil society on a stakeholder meeting in Islamabad: With the 18th amendment the Article 19a of Pakistan’s Constitution every citizen has the Right to Information. This “oxygen of democracy” (UN) gives now the task for federal and provincial parliaments to draft the respective laws. “The Government is working on a draft.” assured Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Qamar Zaman Kaira, during the session. High Media interest on Freedom of Information
High Media interest on Freedom of Information “It would like to enact a uniform law at the federal and provincial levels.”

 

In order to support this law drafting process participants of this CPDI initiative – supported by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNF) – brought in their fruitful ideas. For example, whistleblowers should find protection under the new law. The interested audience stressed that a comprehensive law should have minimal exclusions and a strong implementation. Thus, civil society could count on the support of Senator Haji Muhammad Adil who promised his party support (Awami National Party): “If civil society groups help in drafting a bill, he would be happy to move it as a private member bill in the Parliament.” Also Senior Advocate Supreme Court, Farhat Nawaz Lodhi, argued that discretion in relation to CPDI Director Mukhtar Ahmad Ali taking suggestions of civil society and stakeholders
CPDI Director Mukhtar Ahmad Ali taking suggestions of civil society and stakeholders exercise of authorities has limits and it should not be used in arbitrary manner.

 

For this FNF Resident Representative Olaf Kellerhoff found a guideline for governments’ and bureaucrats’ decision in Marcus Tullius Cicero’s De officiis (On Obligations), an oeuvre from 44 BC dealing with ethics and actions: the public welfare or public interest. Decisions have to be in line with it. This principle is also reflected in the Sharia by its Arabic correspondence: maslaha. Accordingly, the roadmap to a free and democratic society is open to the public, now sketched for the public and decisions can be taken in the interest of the public.

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