The Pakistan Supreme Court has asked the federal and provincial governments to provide complete details of non-government organisations' (NGOs) source of funding.
According to the Dawn, the three-judge bench headed by Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja asked the governments to give complete details of the source of funding of the NGOs, the sectors where they spent money, mechanism to monitor their activities and the process of their registration.
The court warned that the federal interior secretary as well as four chief secretaries will be summoned in person if they failed to provide appropriate and complete information.
The court plans to first take up the issue relating to the NGO activities and then deal with the bail petition.
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