Forensic Science Pakistan
Accurate information, expert knowledge and collaboration that improve the quality and reliability of forensic evidence in Pakistan’s courts.
Our mission
We are committed to empowering justice, promoting accountability and ensuring a just society, by improving the quality and reliability of forensic evidence presented in courts.
Disciplines
The forensic disciplines our work in Pakistan covers, from the laboratory to the courtroom.
Identifying people from biological traces, including kinship testing and degraded or ancient DNA.
Developing, comparing and reporting friction-ridge marks left at a scene.
Documenting scenes and recovering evidence with an unbroken chain of custody.
Reading the shape and spread of bloodstains to reconstruct what happened.
Recovering and examining data from phones, computers and storage media.
Enhancing, authenticating and interpreting recordings.
Linking bullets and cartridge cases to the weapons that fired them.
Detecting drugs, alcohol and poisons in biological samples.
Examining handwriting, signatures, inks and paper for authorship and alteration.
How forensic findings and expert testimony are presented in court.
Using insects found on remains to estimate the time since death.
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Founder
PhD · Forensic genetics, molecular genetics, ancient DNA
“Empowering justice, promoting accountability, and ensuring a just society.”
Blog
DNA evidence, crime scene practice and forensic careers in Pakistan.
DNA & genetics
The dense bone around the inner ear preserves far more human DNA than teeth or long bones. What the studies found, how it is sampled without destroying a skull, and its limits in hot climates.
DNA & genetics
Why mitochondrial DNA survives in bone, teeth and hair when STR profiling fails, how laboratories sequence it, and what a mitochondrial match can and cannot prove.
DNA & genetics
How DNA paternity and identity tests work, when Pakistani courts order them, who pays, why consent matters and how to choose a laboratory whose report will hold up.
