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| SC seeks details about NGOs' source of funding |
| 2015-06-24 |
| [DAWN] At a time when the federal government is planning to regulate non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the matter caught the attention of the Supreme Court on Tuesday. A three-judge bench headed by Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja asked the federal and provincial governments to furnish complete details about the source of funding of the NGOs, the sectors where they spent money, mechanism to monitor their activities and the process of their registration. "In case appropriate and complete information is not shared, the federal interior secretary as well as four chief secretaries will be summoned in person," the court warned. The matter was taken up during the hearing of a bail petition of Haroonur Rashid who was booked for an alleged fraud in a business transaction. It was revealed during the hearing that the parties involved in the case had invested in "Baraan", a Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... -based NGO. The court decided that it would first take up the issue relating to the activities of NGOs and then deal with the bail petition. It observed that the print media was full of stories regarding the issue of NGOs and the statements of the ministers, but in reality nothing was happening to rein in such organizations. Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar had said on Monday that the government intended to re-register all local and international NGOs operating in the country within six months and they would be allowed to work only after security clearance. |
| Posted by:Fred |