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title: "National Assembly paid Rs35m to private lawyers for RTI cases"
description: "Both outlets reported that the National Assembly Secretariat paid over Rs35 million to private lawyers between 2022 and 2026 for legal work related to Right to Information cases. Dawn added that the payments were \"ostensibly to argue for the suppression of information,\" while Daily Times provided a more neutral framing without specifying the nature of the legal arguments."
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# National Assembly paid Rs35m to private lawyers for RTI cases

pakistan · latest filing 19 Aug 2026, 11:27 AM PKT · 19 Aug 2026 · 2 articles from 2 outlets

**HarZaviya summary** — how 2 outlets covered this, generated automatically from their headlines and excerpts:

> Both outlets reported that the National Assembly Secretariat paid over Rs35 million to private lawyers between 2022 and 2026 for legal work related to Right to Information cases. Dawn added that the payments were "ostensibly to argue for the suppression of information," while Daily Times provided a more neutral framing without specifying the nature of the legal arguments.

## Same story from 2 outlets

Each outlet's own headline, most recent first — read any at its source.

- **Daily Times** — [National Assembly spent Rs35m on private lawyers for RTI cases](https://dailytimes.com.pk/1540630/national-assembly-spent-rs35m-on-private-lawyers-for-rti-cases/) · 19 Aug 2026, 11:27 AM PKT
  > ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Secretariat paid more than Rs35 million to private lawyers between 2022 and 2026. The payments covered legal work linked to Right to Information cases. Read More: NAB grants 14-day physical remand of Maryam, Abbas The spending was disclosed after an order from the Pakistan Information Commission. Journalist Saddia Mazhar filed the […]
- **Dawn** — [National Asse­mbly paid lawyers Rs35m to keep lid on Right to Information requests](https://www.dawn.com/news/2023801/national-assembly-paid-lawyers-rs35m-to-keep-lid-on-right-to-information-requests) · 19 Aug 2026, 8:08 AM PKT · 87% identical wording to the newest filing
  > ISLAMABAD: The National Asse­mbly Secretariat paid over Rs35 million to private lawyers between 2022 and 2026, ostensibly to argue for the suppression of information in cases involving the release of details und­er Right to Information (RTI) laws. According to information made public in compliance with an order of the Pakistan Information Commission, the highest annual expenditure was recorded ...

2 articles from 2 outlets, 19 Aug 2026. Headlines and links belong to their outlets — HarZaviya links out and never copies article text.

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