Ammar Khan

Why the Remand-to-Challan Stage Is Where Most Bail Battles Are Won or Lost By the time a case reaches remand, the FIR is already registered, and the investigation is already underway, but the hardest part, for both the client and the advocate, is often still ahead. This is the stage where an accused person’s liberty

Why the First Ten Days of a Criminal Case Decide Everything Almost every criminal matter that reaches an advocate’s office in Pakistan begins in the same place: a client sitting across the desk, either wanting to lodge an FIR or terrified that one has just been lodged against them. What happens in the days immediately

Why Every Criminal Case in Pakistan Follows the Same Legal Roadmap Every criminal case in Pakistan, whether it is a simple scuffle case or a murder trial, travels through the same procedural road before it ever reaches a trial court. That road is laid down in Chapter XIV of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898,