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What Is a Fard? (Part 4)
When you want to buy land, first get the jamabandi, you'll find out who has owned it from the first owner up to the present day, and don't panic if the name of the person you're buying from isn't written in it. Here patwaris and tehsildars keep the jamabandi registers such that they don't update them for five years at a stretch, in some mauzas it doesn't happen even for ten years. That doesn't…

What Is a Fard? (Part 3)
If you're educated, keep this in mind, a patwari isn't more educated than you, you just need to focus a bit. It comes back to the same thing: if you take legal advice, nothing can happen to you. Legal advice means taking advice from a good lawyer who knows this field. The patwari isn't more educated than you, the tehsildar isn't more educated than you, this whole racket has been built in such a…

What Is a Fard? (Part 2)
Fard kia hoti hay? Pakistan main fard ki haisiat. What is a fard in Pakistan?

How to File a Civil Suit (Part 1)
How to file a civil suit in civil court? Civil suit procedure in Pakistan.

How to Take Possession of Property?
This article will give you valuable information about how to get possession.