Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
nongovernmental organization
Int'l law. Any scientific, professional, business, or publicinterest organization that is neither affiliated with nor under the direction of a government; an international organization that is not the creation of an agreement among countries, but rather is composed of private individuals or organizations. ( Examples of these organizations, which are often granted consultative status with the United Nations, include OPEC, Greenpeace, and the Red Cross. - Abbr. NGO. "This term should not be taken to refer to the membership of the organization: governments or branches of governments are members of many non-governmental organizations. The notion non-governmental' refers to the function of the international organization. Non-governmental organizations are not endowed with government powers. They operate under rules of private and not of public law." Henry G. Schermers, International Institutional
quasi-autonomous nongovernmental organization
A semipublic administrative body (esp. in the United Kingdom) having some members appointed and financed by, but not answerable to, the government, such as a tourist authority, a university-grants commission, a price-and-wage commission, a prison or parole board, or a medical-health advisory panel. ( This term is more commonly written as an acronym, quango (kwang-goh), without capital letters.