https://mohammedan.law/articles.html Articles on customs, financial crime and public health law from the chambers of Syed Aun Mohammed Bokhari, Barrister-at-Law, Islamabad. en-gb https://mohammedan.law/articles/human-smuggling-and-the-money-trail.html https://mohammedan.law/articles/human-smuggling-and-the-money-trail.html Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:00:00 +0500 Financial Crime Pakistan prosecutes the agents of Pylos and Dakhla yet has never opened the financial ledger of the trade: the FMU recorded two smuggling items in a quarter of 24,107 reports. Until the Acts of 2018 enter the Schedule and a FinCEN-style alert issues, confiscation remains beyond reach. https://mohammedan.law/articles/america-retreats-from-corporate-transparency.html https://mohammedan.law/articles/america-retreats-from-corporate-transparency.html Mon, 03 Aug 2026 06:00:00 +0500 Anti-Money Laundering On the fall of the American beneficial ownership register, struck down in National Small Business United v Yellen and hollowed out by the FinCEN rule of 21st March 2025, and what Pakistan's Section 123A register, with its three per cent effectiveness score, should learn from the retreat. https://mohammedan.law/articles/mpox-and-the-missing-emergency-powers.html https://mohammedan.law/articles/mpox-and-the-missing-emergency-powers.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:00:00 +0500 Public Health Law An American Secretary could declare mpox an emergency in 2022 because Section 319 told him he might. No officer of the Federation holds any such power, so a determination made at Geneva reaches Islamabad as a news item and not as a legal event. https://mohammedan.law/articles/real-estate-and-money-laundering.html https://mohammedan.law/articles/real-estate-and-money-laundering.html Tue, 07 Jul 2026 06:00:00 +0500 Financial Crime America's Final Rule of 29th August 2024 requires a filed report for every non-financed transfer of residential property to a company or trust. Pakistan, whose real estate sector filed 127 Suspicious Transaction Reports in a quarter, should create a "Real Estate Report" under the Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2010. https://mohammedan.law/articles/points-of-entry-and-the-federal-gap.html https://mohammedan.law/articles/points-of-entry-and-the-federal-gap.html Tue, 30 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +0500 Public Health Law Pakistan has eighteen designated points of entry, six of them ground crossings without an isolation room or a diagnostic between them. The Ports Act, 1908 carries no sanitary provision, and the aviation Act of 2023 dropped the enforcement power its predecessor held. https://mohammedan.law/articles/vaccine-disinformation-and-the-law.html https://mohammedan.law/articles/vaccine-disinformation-and-the-law.html Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +0500 Public Health Law Twenty-five thousand children were carried to hospital at Peshawar in 2019 over a rumour, and not one had suffered vaccine injury. Pakistan answered with arrests, as it answers every attack on a vaccinator, because no statute obliges any officer to place the truth before a parent. https://mohammedan.law/articles/de-risking-and-the-debanking-of-pakistan.html https://mohammedan.law/articles/de-risking-and-the-debanking-of-pakistan.html Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +0500 Anti-Money Laundering Pakistan, de-risked abroad during the “Grey List” years, now reproduces the same exclusion at home against its “Exchange Companies”, freelancers and charities. Since every closed account pushes money into “Hawala and Hundi”, therefore the State Bank of Pakistan should forbid debanking by customer category alone. https://mohammedan.law/articles/migration-health-and-the-missing-law.html https://mohammedan.law/articles/migration-health-and-the-missing-law.html Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +0500 Public Health Law Forty-seven years of hosting the displaced, governed by the Foreigners Act, 1946 and a run of cabinet minutes. Since the Regulations fasten the duty of vaccination upon residence and not upon nationality, therefore two million people sit outside a scheme Pakistan answers for at Torkham. https://mohammedan.law/articles/virtual-assets-and-the-regulatory-vacuum.html https://mohammedan.law/articles/virtual-assets-and-the-regulatory-vacuum.html Tue, 26 May 2026 06:00:00 +0500 Anti-Money Laundering Pakistan governed virtual assets for eight years by a banking circular which bound the banks and nobody else, while the FATF rated Recommendation 15 partially compliant. The Virtual Assets Act, 2026 at last puts a law in field; enforcement now turns on proving the predicate offence, as Shahid Chaudhry v The State requires. https://mohammedan.law/articles/avian-influenza-and-one-health.html https://mohammedan.law/articles/avian-influenza-and-one-health.html Tue, 12 May 2026 06:00:00 +0500 Public Health Law Pakistan keeps 2.17 billion birds and two statute books which have never spoken to each other, since no enactment in field obliges a veterinary officer who confirms H5N1 to tell any health authority. A power to cull without a duty to compensate hence buys silence rather than surveillance. https://mohammedan.law/articles/elder-financial-exploitation.html https://mohammedan.law/articles/elder-financial-exploitation.html Mon, 04 May 2026 06:00:00 +0500 Financial Crime FinCEN’s trend analysis of 18th April 2024 counted 155,415 elder exploitation reports worth over twenty-seven billion US Dollars in a year; Pakistan can state no figure, because no Pakistani law names the wrong. The article surveys the statutory silence and calls for a State Bank circular, an FMU category and provincial offences. https://mohammedan.law/articles/punjab-animal-health-act-needs-amendment.html https://mohammedan.law/articles/punjab-animal-health-act-needs-amendment.html Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:00:00 +0500 Public Health Law The Punjab Animal Health Act, 2019 is the best animal health drafting in Pakistan and it exempts a class of persons it never creates. Since the power to remove difficulties lapsed in December 2021, therefore that error is now beyond everything but an amending Act. https://mohammedan.law/articles/lawyers-as-gatekeepers.html https://mohammedan.law/articles/lawyers-as-gatekeepers.html Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:00:00 +0500 Anti-Money Laundering The Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2010 already names the Pakistani lawyer a “DNFBP” and the Pakistan Bar Council his “Self-Regulatory Body”, yet the FMU’s tables record no “Suspicious Transaction Report” from any lawyer. The article argues the Bar should accept the “Gatekeeper” duty on its own terms before another authority imposes it. https://mohammedan.law/articles/a-whistleblower-regime-for-money-laundering.html https://mohammedan.law/articles/a-whistleblower-regime-for-money-laundering.html Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:00:00 +0500 Anti-Money Laundering The Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2010 contains no whistleblower provision, though Pakistan rewards tax informers and America pays anti-money laundering whistleblowers up to thirty per cent of recoveries. Parliament should insert a whistleblower chapter providing rewards on adjudicated forfeiture, protection against retaliation and punishment for false reporting. https://mohammedan.law/articles/wildlife-smuggling-and-the-money-trail.html https://mohammedan.law/articles/wildlife-smuggling-and-the-money-trail.html Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:00:00 +0500 Financial Crime Pakistan seizes falcons and pangolin scales yet has never opened a laundering investigation, because the wildlife offences appear nowhere in the Schedule to the Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2010. The article argues for scheduling them by Gazette notification and for a parallel financial investigation upon every substantial seizure.