Citation Name: 2023 PLD 278 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHOREBookmark this Case The LAHORE GYMKHANA vs The PUNJAB INFOR

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Citation Name: 2023 PLD 278 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHOREBookmark this Case The LAHORE GYMKHANA VS The PUNJAB INFORMATION COMMISSION Ejusdem generis, rule of---applicability---General word if followed by specific words of the same nature is presumed to be restricted to the same genus as those in the specific words---If statute shows that wider sense is intended or there are provisions in the statute which reflect that certain other categories are included out of the suggested genus, the rule of ejusdem generis does not apply. Citation Name: 2023 PLD 278 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHOREBookmark this Case The LAHORE GYMKHANA VS The PUNJAB INFORMATION COMMISSION Substance---Meaning. Citation Name: 2023 PLD 278 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHOREBookmark this Case The LAHORE GYMKHANA VS The PUNJAB INFORMATION COMMISSION Ss. 2(h)(iv) & 6---Constitution of Pakistan, Arts. 19-A & 199---Constitutional petition---Access to information---Public body---Words "substantially financed by the Government"---Scope---Petitioner club was aggrieved of direction issued by the Commissioner to provide certain information to respondents as the club was substantially financed by the Government---Validity---It was not necessary to measure financing in percentage---Contribution of Government was not required to be more than fifty percent or having major portion or dominant and majority part but it was sufficient if financial assistance was material and important or when such contribution was fairly large and it was having essential role in existence of an entity/body---Legislature promulgated Punjab Transparency and Right to Information Act, 2013, in order to confirm transparency and to provide freedom of information to ensure that the citizens have improved access to public information; to enforce fundamental right of the citizens to have access to information in all matters of public importance and to provide assistance for ancillary matters---One of the main purposes of Punjab Transparency and Right to Information Act, 2013, was to make Government of the Punjab more accountable to citizens---High Court declined to interfere in the order passed by the Commissioner---Constitutional petition was dismissed, in circumstances.

Citation Name: 2023 PLD 278 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHOREBookmark this Case The LAHORE GYMKHANA vs The PUNJAB INFORMATION COMMISSION Ejusdem generis, rule of — 2023 PLD 278 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE

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