{"id":14875,"date":"2023-03-22T11:54:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T11:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=14875"},"modified":"2023-03-22T11:54:01","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T11:54:01","slug":"lhc-orders-release-of-toshakhana-record-from-1990-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/lhc-orders-release-of-toshakhana-record-from-1990-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"LHC orders release of Toshakhana record from 1990-2001"},"content":{"rendered":"

Justice Asim Hafeez of the Lahore High Court<\/a> (LHC) on Wednesday ordered the government to make the complete record of Toshakhana from 1990 to 2001 public despite the government\u2019s opposition.
\nThe high court directed the authorities to release all the records, saying nothing could be hidden from public view. \u201cAlso share the name of the friendly country who gifted the items,\u201d the court ordered.
\nThe federal government objected to sharing the source of a gift and said it would challenge the verdict. To this, Justice Asim Hafeez said it is your right to file a challenge.
\n\u201cNo one can retain the gift without making payment,\u201d the order stated.
\nThe directives from the high court came on a petition of citizen Munir Hafeez who had sought complete details of the gifts received by political rulers and bureaucrats from foreign dignitaries since the creation of Pakistan.
\nEarlier this month, the federal government released the Toshakhana record from 2002 onwards, exposing the political leadership of the country that benefitted from the depository.
\nThe government had maintained that releasing all the records may harm Pakistan’s relations with friendly countries, however, the court ignored these warnings and ordered to declassify records.
\nLast week, the court ordered the presentation of the Toshakhana record prior to 2002 in any format available, adding that it would pass appropriate orders after reviewing the record.<\/p>\n

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New Toshakahana policy<\/strong>
\nUnder the new Toshakhana policy for all government functionaries including the ruling political elite, parliamentarians, judges, generals and bureaucrats to declare and deposit all gifts received by them in Toshkhana within 30 days of receipt of gifts otherwise punitive action will be taken against the violator.
\nThe policy notified on March 8, 2023, abolishes the previous rules which allowed the government functionaries to retain any gift by paying 50% of the price assessed.
\nNow any gift exceeding US$ 300 shall straightaway become Toshakhana property while gifts valued up to US$ 300 can be retained by the recipient without any discount on the payment of assessed market value.
\nThis exemption shall, however, not be available in the case of antiques and gifts of intrinsic historical value. All such gifts shall be properly catalogued and displayed at prominent buildings owned by the government.
\nThe recipients, however, can retain gifts of perishable items without reporting or depositing them in Toshakhana.
\nTo ensure that every gift received is reported and deposited in Toshakhana, the policy envisages that the chief of protocol, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, or his representative attached to a visiting dignitary or a foreign delegation, shall be responsible to supply the list of the gifts received, together with names of the recipients, to the Cabinet Division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Justice Asim Hafeez of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday ordered the government to make the complete record of Toshakhana from 1990 to 2001 public despite the government\u2019s opposition. The high court directed the authorities to release all the records, saying nothing could be hidden from public view. \u201cAlso share the name of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[615,616,7387,103],"class_list":["post-14875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-lahore-high-court","tag-lhc","tag-toshakhana","tag-imran-khan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}