Director General Prosecution Message (Mukhtiar Ahmad)

Prosecution is a prime component of Criminal Justice System and the KP Prosecution Department was established under The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Prosecution Service (Constitution, Functions and Powers) Act, 2005. The objective of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Prosecution Act, 2005 is based on the touchstone of Article 37 (d) of the Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan 1973 which ensures inexpensive and expeditious justice to safeguard the interest of the public with a view to protect the rights of common people. The objective of the Prosecution service is to secure and achieve speedy and inexpensive Justice Process to safeguard the interest of the public with a view to protect their rights. To represent the truth for the acquittal of innocent and conviction of the guilty and to protect them from the anguish of unnecessary litigations. Despite meager resources, the achievements of the Prosecution Service are unprecedented as in the year 2020, the conviction rate in the cases registered under Ordinary Laws was 77.1% despite the fact that Model Courts were established and cases were disposed of at high ratio. Similarly, in the cases registered under the Anti-Terrorism Act, the conviction rate was 19.5% despite the fact that cases of merged districts of erstwhile FATA were transferred to the Anti-Terrorism Courts on the direction of Peshawar High Court, Peshawar. In order to make the Prosecution Service more vibrant and dynamic, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Prosecution Act, 2005 is being amended to give access of appearance of Prosecutors before the Superior Court like other sister Provinces after establishing the office of Prosecutor General. In this regard necessary amendments in the Act ibid are already under process. Since, Model Courts are established throughout Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for disposal of criminal cases hence Prosecution Officers are deputed despite meager number of Prosecution Officers to perform their duties with utmost dedication and zeal in order to dispose of all the cases in time. Similarly, in order to overcome the shortage of Prosecutors, the recruitment of newly Prosecutors are under way and Assistant Public Prosecutors and Deputy Public Prosecutors have been promoted recently. Last but not the least, in the near future, latest technology in shape of CMMS is going to be operationalized and implemented by which records of criminal case would be digitalized and reporting would be enhanced resulting the performance of the Department would be improved. Furthermore various trainings inland and foreign have been imparted to the Prosecution Officers for their capacity building and enhancement of their Prosecution skills.