Who is this desk for?

Immigration practitioners. We prepare independent Pakistan country expert reports for solicitors, law centres, and counsel instructing on asylum and immigration appeals, including legal aid files.

Do you work on legal aid files?

Yes. Open a docket with the funding status marked. We supply a scope, fee estimate, and CV for prior authority or approval. Drafting ordinarily starts once funding is in place.

Which forums are covered?

First-tier Tribunal (IAC) hearings, Upper Tribunal (UTIAC), and fresh-claim or further-submissions work requiring Pakistan country evidence.

How is impartiality maintained?

The expert’s overriding duty is to the Tribunal as an objective witness, consistent with CPR Part 35, the Ikarian Reefer principles, and Immigration Tribunal practice on expert evidence. It is not advocacy for either party.

How do I open a docket?

Submit a redacted docket via the form, including forum, deadline, claim nexus, and how the matter is funded. Do not include unredacted claimant names, Home Office references, or biometrics.

Can reports address Pakistan’s blasphemy and anti-Ahmadi laws specifically?

Yes. Dossiers are framed against Pakistan’s own legal framework, including the blasphemy laws, the restrictions on Ahmadi practice, anti-terrorism charging, and preventive detention powers, rather than generic country overviews or untested CPIN extracts.

Pakistan country evidence for immigration tribunals.

Independent CPR Part 35 reports and CPIN rebuttals for solicitors, law centres, and counsel. Duty to the Tribunal, not to the instructing party.

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Work

Pakistani profiles that drive asylum appeals.

Four risk profiles sit at the centre of this desk’s work. Each report is written against the claimant’s own locality, visibility, and history.

01Blasphemy & Sectarian ViolenceLahore, Punjab
02Ahmadiyya & Minority RightsRabwah, Punjab
03Political Persecution & State AgenciesQuetta, Balochistan
04Gender, Honour Crimes & LGBTQ+Upper Sindh

Locations are illustrative. Risk is assessed nationwide and against the facts of each case.

Blasphemy Allegations & Extrajudicial Mob Violence

Analysis of blasphemy allegations, FIR charging patterns, police complicity, and vigilante mob risk, including internal relocation feasibility for the accused.

Ahmadiyya Community & Religious Minority Persecution

Legal restrictions on Ahmadi practice, mosque and burial ground targeting, and persecution patterns affecting Ahmadiyya, Shia Hazara, Christian, and Hindu communities.

Political Persecution & State Security Apparatus

State targeting of PTI, PTM, Baloch and Sindhi activists, MQM, and TLP affiliates; ISI, MI, IB, and CTD involvement; FIR misuse; feasibility of internal relocation.

Gender-Based Persecution, Honour Crimes & Khwajasira Rights

Karo-Kari honour crimes, forced marriage, domestic and gender-based violence, and risk profiles for transgender (Khwajasira) claimants.

CPR Part 35 country reports

Independent Pakistan dossiers scoped to the file. Sources disclosed, opinions reasoned, not advocacy.

Home Office CPIN rebuttals

Point-by-point engagement with the live Pakistan CPIN stack where generic extracts understate locality, visibility, or protection gaps.

Oral evidence

Remote or in-person testimony prepared for cross-examination at the hearing centre.

Forums

Written for the tribunal file.

Reports are drafted to be read by the judge, disclosed to the other side, and tested in cross-examination.

First-tier Tribunal (IAC)

CPR Part 35 reports and oral evidence prepared for Pakistani asylum appeals, written to be read by the judge and tested in cross-examination.

Upper Tribunal (UTIAC)

Error-of-law and country guidance work requiring Pakistan analysis grounded in the country’s own law and practice, beyond a generic CPIN extract.

Fresh claims & further submissions

Country condition dossiers for fresh claims and further submissions where the Pakistan risk picture has changed since the last decision.

Home Office CPIN critique

Generic baseline claim

Home Office CPIN

Ahmadi claimants can generally relocate within Pakistan and obtain adequate state protection; blasphemy-related violence is characterised as sporadic and localised.

Expert finding

Independent country analysis

The legal restrictions on Ahmadis apply nationwide. Relocating frequently increases visibility; police protection is inconsistently available when mob pressure escalates.

Generic baseline claim

Home Office CPIN

Internal relocation is a reasonable option for individuals fearing non-state actors, including in gender-based and honour-related claims.

Expert finding

Independent country analysis

Karo-Kari and biradari enforcement often transcend district boundaries. Family tracing and documented police reluctance undermine generic IFA assumptions.

Legal aid files

Legal aid files, scoped before drafting.

This desk takes legal aid funded Pakistani asylum and immigration appeals. Funding authority comes first; the report follows.

Legal aid funded instructions

Reports are scoped for legal aid files. We provide a written estimate and CV suitable for prior authority or approval of expert evidence.

Authority before drafting

Drafting starts once funding authority is confirmed, unless the firm is covering the fee privately pending a decision.

Privately funded matters

The same scope, estimate, and timetable process applies to privately funded files, with the fee agreed in writing before work begins.

Counsel

Who commissions this desk.

Instructions come from practitioners only. Claimants and family members should speak to their representative.

Immigration solicitors

Firms running Pakistani asylum and immigration appeals before the First-tier Tribunal, on legal aid or private funding.

Law centres & advice agencies

Law centres and specialist agencies instructing independent country evidence on Ahmadi, blasphemy, HBV, LGBTQ+, and political profiles.

Counsel

Advocates and counsel instructed on Pakistani appeals who need a CPR Part 35 report that can withstand cross-examination.

Firms with legal aid matters

Practitioners instructing on legal aid files or tribunal hearings that require Pakistan-specific evidence.