Islamabad court order: Government of Pakistan should give information about the gifts received by the PM

Pakistan's Islamabad High Court issued an order on Monday. In this order, the government has been asked to give information about all the gifts that have been received by all the Prime Ministers and Presidents since the formation of Pakistan. The court has asked to present the report within a month.
According to Pakistan's Geo News, a person named Abuzar Salman Niazi had filed a petition in the court. The counsel for the petitioner said that the cabinet division of the government has refused to give this information.
Abuzar Salman Niazi told the court that the government has said that the information about the gifts is confidential, so it cannot be made public. According to the petitioner, the Pakistan Information Commission had on June 29 asked the Prime Minister and the President to give information about the gifts received. Those orders were not followed even after a lapse of 5 months.
The court ordered Pakistan's Deputy Attorney General Syed Ahsan Raza that if this information is available to the government, it should be made public. On this, Raza said that the government has records till 1990 only. On which the court said that Toshakhana must have information about this in his papers. Its information should be given to the petitioner within a month.
Earlier also, at the beginning of December, the Lahore High Court sought a list of gifts the President and the Prime Minister received since 1947. Which the government refused to give. On the petition of a person named Munir Ahmed, Justice Asim Hafiz had asked to make the records of these gifts public.