1[19A. Right to information. Every citizen shall have the right to have access to information in
all matters of public importance subject to regulation and reasonable restrictions imposed by law].
20. Freedom to profess religion and to manage religious institutions. Subject to law,
public order and morality,—
(a) every citizen shall have the right to profess, practise and propagate his religion; and
(b) every religious denomination and every sect thereof shall have the right to establish,
maintain and manage its religious institutions.
21. Safeguard against taxation for purposes of any particular religion. No person shall be
compelled to pay any special tax the proceeds of which are to be spent on the propagation or
maintenance of any religion other than his own.
22. Safeguards as to educational institutions in respect of religion, etc.__(1) No person
attending any educational institution shall be required to receive religious instruction, or take part in
any religious ceremony, or attend religious worship, if such instruction, ceremony or worship relates
to a religion other than his own.
(2) In respect of any religious institution, there shall be no discrimination against any community
in the granting of exemption or concession in relation to taxation.
(3) Subject to law,
(a) no religious community or denomination shall be prevented from providing religious
instruction for pupils of that community or denomination in any educational institution
maintained wholly by that community or denomination; and
(b) no citizen shall be denied admission to any educational institution receiving aid from
public revenues on the ground only of race, religion, caste or place of birth.
(4) Nothing in this Article shall prevent any public authority from making provision for the
advancement of any socially or educationally backward class of citizens.
23. Provision as to property. Every citizen shall have the right to acquire, hold and dispose of
property in any part of Pakistan, subject to the Constitution and any reasonable restrictions imposed
by law in the public interest.
24. Protection of property rights.__(1) No person shall be deprived of his property save in
accordance with law.
(2) No property shall be compulsorily acquired or taken possession of save for a public purpose,
and save by the authority of law which provides for compensation therefor and either fixes the
amount of compensation or specifies the principles on and the manner in which compensation is to be
determined and given.
1 New Article 19A ins. by the Constitution (Eighteenth Amdt.) Act, 2010 (10 of 2010), s. 7.
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