Undoing a good law

In an unimaginably unwise move, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly amended its Right to Information (RTI) Act 2013 by passing two decadent and regressive bills. One exempts the KP Assembly from the ambit of the RTI Act and the other gives the government the right to appeal against decisions of the RTI commission in the court of a district and sessions judge. So with one stroke of pen, the assembly totally destroyed the spirit of the RTI Act and took away a fundamental right guaranteed by Article 19A of the constitution. No citizen can now seek information on the performance, expenses or even attendance of those who sit in the assembly and are paid out of taxpayers’ money.
The new amendment essentially makes the Information Commission a redundant setup whose functions become no different than that of a post office. What made the KP Assembly come to such an atrocious and mala-fide conclusion? Regretfully, this proves that elected members of the assembly no longer feel the need to be held accountable by those who elected them. Can the PTI chief be asked to intervene and use his influence to undo this seriously bad decision by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly?
Naeem Sadiq
Karachi