Dropout 500 Girls Back to High School in Pakistan

I started my legal profession 32 years ago from Multan which is a famous city of southern Punjab. In start of my profession I did not inspire with legal profession but gradually when I conducted the cases of very poor accused who could not engage a lawyer, I came to know that I can help such like poor accused better then others. So I took interest in this profession. During my practice, I helped so many poor accused especially poor ladies and children. There is bench of Lahore high court in Multan where cases from remote, neglected and backwards cities came like Dera Ghazi Khan, Rajan pur, Jampur, Alipur etc. These poor litigants could not afford lawyers. Police of those areas also did not help these people but favors the power full landlord’s people of those areas. If a working man arrest in a false case, then all other family members face many difficulties and miserable situations especially women. Power full people of that areas treated these person like animals, purchased their properties in very low prices. The poor people spend all their assets on litigation. These poor people compelled for begging. I try my best to release these poor accused on bail so that they can pursue their case and also look after their families. But this project needed many big teams of lawyers who can help them in initial stage in trial courts in their own cities. Many junior lawyers could be trained for this project.

Legal awareness:

For legal awareness , I started a law magazine in 2000 namely “Legal Edition” in many important laws, important decisions of higher courts were translated in national language “Urdu” so that common people as  well as young lawyers could understand that laws & decision because 80% of lawyers could not understand English in its true perspective. This magazine circulated in all Pakistan in lawyers, judges and common litigant for the last sixteen years.

Law books translated in Urdu:

Following law books were translated in Urdu (National language) and published for lawyers and for general public, so that they can understand better the law:

1. Family Law

Family laws relating divorce, maintenance guardianship marriage, succession certificate and others related laws & prepositions which relate to family laws by the ladies and others litigants.

1. Jail Laws

Jail laws (Prisoners Manual) which relates the legal rights of prisoners and arrested persons by Police during investigation of the cases because in Police investigation, Police torture and so called police encounters are very common and even in jail prisoners faced many difficulties and they were not given proper facilities which were written in Jail Law Manual.

1. Pleadings:

Most of the pleadings and judgments of Pakistani courts especially Session Court, High Courts and Supreme Courts are in English-Common people themselves filed their applications by themselves in Urdu (National Language) in the courts but they did not know how they write the application and sequences of paragraphs of their application.

1. Partition of Inherited Property:

After the death of  person his property has to be divided in legal heirs but Islamic way of calculating the share of legal heirs are very complicated so in this book all procedure of calculating the shares in different preposition and circumstances were given in easy way.

In addition to these 4 books in Urdu they are other 5 books but they are in English but process is going on to get them translated in Urdu.

Supreme Court of Pakistan in its famous judgment reported as PLD 2015 Supreme Court page # 1210 directed the Government to get translated all the Federal and Provincial laws in national language Urdu for supervising and reviewing the translation in Urdu, make a three member committee by Ministry of Law and appointed me as “Chairperson” of that committee.

COLLABORATION WITH MUWAKHAT FOUNDATION

In early 2016, my law firm signed agreement with Muwakhat Foundation with objective to uplift and support women of poor community.

Up till now on the platform of Muwakhat Foundation there is a team of 6 junior lawyers headed by me and they were providing “Free Legal Aid” to the poor people in 3 cities of Punjab i.e. Lahore, Multan and Kasur. We are trying to increase the area of Free Legal Aid Service and trained at least 50 to 60 junior lawyers for this purpose especially those persons whose belongs to poor family so they can work more with devotion and sympathy.