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    Mateen et al.

    Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences (2018) 8:45


    https://doi.org/10.1186/s41935-018-0077-3
    Egyptian Journal of
    Forensic Sciences

    LETTER TO THE EDITOR Open Access

    Forensic science in Pakistan; present and


    future
    Rana Muhammad Mateen1*, Asma Tariq2 and Nouman Rasool3

    Main text Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police has established Forensic


    To the editor Science Laboratory and Institute of Forensic Science in
    Forensic science has been a key pillar in criminal justice Peshawar on December, 2017 to provide preliminary fo-
    system all over the world (Petherick et al., 2010). In rensic facilities and to bridge the gap between forensic
    Pakistan, forensic has been ignored for a long time. The awareness and criminal investigation practices. In Balo-
    ongoing terrorism gave a wake-up call to the establish- chistan province of Punjab, an act was passed for the
    ment and untiring efforts were made for the establishing establishment of Balochistan Forensic Science Agency
    and proper functioning of the forensic laboratory to help on August, 2015 but no forensic facility has yet been
    criminal investigations (Petherick et al., 2009). Since established. At present, NFSA and PFSA are providing
    2001, authorities have been revamping forensic science many important investigation leads in various hideous
    infrastructure across the country to aid crime investiga- crimes. The advent of DNA data base recently at PFSA
    tion. The National Forensic Science Agency (NFSA) was has proved a major breakthrough in solving crimes
    approved by the Executive Committee of the National through DNA profile comparison, not only exonerating
    Economic Council (ECNEC) as an autonomous body in the innocent, but also in catching the real culprit (Punjab
    2002 having departments of crime scene Investigation, Forensic Science Agency, n.d.). Now general public and
    trace chemistry, questioned documents and digital foren- judiciary of Pakistan are relying heavily on Forensic
    sics (National Forensic Science Agency, n.d.). Its objective evidences in trial cases and making decisions. As forensic
    was to help establish other forensic science laboratories science popularity increases in the country so does the
    across the country and to provide teaching and training backlog. More and more cases are being received each day
    facilities throughout Pakistan, which is still not achieved. which is causing delay in the case processing and ultim-
    In Punjab province, Punjab Forensic Science Agency ately delayed justice. There is a need to increase the cap-
    (PFSA) Act was passed on October 2007 for the establish- acity and number of the Forensic laboratories across the
    ment of the Forensic Science Agency which ultimately country as current facility is insufficient keeping in mind
    lead to the establishment of the Punjab Forensic Science the large number of cases coming from big population of
    Agency on 2012 having fourteen departments under one Pakistan (Population Welfare Department, n.d.).
    roof. The departments include audio video analysis,
    computer forensic unit, crime and death scene, DNA and
    serology, forensic photography, narcotics, toxicology, trace Conclusion
    evidence, polygraph, firearm and tool marks, latent finger- As population of Punjab province of Pakistan is 110
    prints, pathology and questioned documents (Punjab million, a single forensic laboratory at provincial level can-
    Forensic Science Agency, n.d.). In Sindh province, Sindh not fulfil the requirement of this province. There is a dire
    Forensic Science Agency act was passed on August, 2017 need to establish and strengthen the infrastructure of the
    but so far no laboratory has been established. DNA testing forensic laboratories in Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkha and
    facility available in Jamshoro, Sindh which provides Bolochistan province of Pakistan. It is also noteworthy to
    research as well as forensic DNA testing. Besides this, mention that that capacity building, continuous learning
    government of Sindh is making efforts for establishment and proper trainings of the personnel working in these
    of Forensic DNA testing laboratory in Karachi University. laboratories is necessary to counter the increasing amount
    of criminal cases in Pakistan for smooth functioning of
    * Correspondence: rana.mateen@umt.edu.pk judiciary system.
    1
    Department of Life sciences, University of Management and Technology,
    Lahore, Pakistan
    Full list of author information is available at the end of the article

    © The Author(s). 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
    International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and
    reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to
    the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
    Mateen et al. Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences (2018) 8:45 Page 2 of 2

    Abbreviations
    ECNEC: Executive Committee of the National Economic Council;
    NFSA: National Forensic Science Agency; PFSA: Punjab Forensic Science
    Agency

    Funding
    Not Applicable.

    Availability of data and materials


    Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or
    analysed during the current study.

    Author’s contribution
    RMM (Data curator, writing). AT (Data curator, writing). NR (Data curator,
    review). All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

    Ethics approval and consent to participate


    Not applicable.

    Consent for publication


    Not applicable.

    Competing interests
    The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

    Publisher’s Note
    Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in
    published maps and institutional affiliations.

    Author details
    1
    Department of Life sciences, University of Management and Technology,
    Lahore, Pakistan. 2Institute of Biochemistry & Biotechnology, University of the
    Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. 3Department of Life sciences, University of
    Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan.

    Received: 6 June 2018 Accepted: 26 July 2018

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