The court’s decision to make Tosha Khana’s 1990–2001 records public has been challenged by the federal government in Lahore.
According to the details, an application was filed in the Lahore High Court against the court’s decision to make the details of Tosha Khana public from 1990 to 2001.
The court’s decision to make public the specifics of Tosha Khana’s life from 1990 to 2001 was challenged by the federal government.
The federal government filed an appeal through the Additional Attorney General, a 2-member bench of the Lahore High Court will hear the government’s appeal, the bench includes Justice Shahid Bilal Hasan and Justice Raza Qureshi.
The details of Tosha Khana’s gifts from 1990 to 2001 were to be made public, per the single bench’s order. The court had also directed that the names of the countries giving the gifts and the names of the guests should also be made public, information under Articles 19 and 19A of the Constitution. Access is a citizen’s right.
The court had declared that no one can keep a gift without paying the price, on which Azhar Siddique said that action can be taken against the one who takes the gift without paying the price.
The court rejected the federal government’s objection to not making the records public and said that nothing can be legally hidden, any gift that has been taken for free belongs to the government. is equal to, unless one pays the price of the gifts received from the Toshakhana he cannot take.