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Certified Pakistani Property Deed Translation
Certified translation of the documents that record the ownership of land and buildings in Pakistan, including the registry annotations and endorsements that carry the legal effect and that a reader unfamiliar with the system will otherwise skip.
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Registration, mutation and the difference
A Pakistani sale deed is registered with the sub-registrar on stamped paper, but registration alone does not change the revenue record. The transfer is completed by mutation (intiqal) in the land revenue records.
A registered deed with no mutation leaves the seller as the recorded owner. That two-step structure catches people, and both documents belong in the file.
The revenue record, and its vocabulary
Rural land is recorded in the jamabandi — the record of rights, revised every four years — with the khewat, khatauni and khasra numbers, and the fard is the extract of it.
A fard malkiat is what a bank or a court asks for. These are not interchangeable terms and flattening them to "land record" destroys the information. We name each.
Urban schemes, and the allotment letter
Much Pakistani urban property is held in development authority schemes — DHA, LDA, CDA, Bahria — where the documents are an allotment letter, a transfer letter and a possession certificate rather than a registered deed.
Those are the real title documents in that sector and they are issued by the authority, not a registry. We name the issuing authority and the scheme.
The CNIC, and the languages
Parties are identified by CNIC, thirteen digits, and revenue records identify people by father's name and caste or tribe as well.
Deeds are often in English; revenue records are in Urdu and, in Punjab, historically in Persian-script Punjabi shorthand that is genuinely hard to read. See our Urdu page.
Ordering, and what the certification covers
Upload the document, choose certified translation at $24.95 per page of up to 250 words, and it comes back typically within 24 hours as a PDF formatted to mirror the original, with a signed certificate of translation accuracy on letterhead. Marginal annotations are translated in place, in the margin, and every seal, stamp and registry endorsement is translated with the text. See how we translate and certified versus standard.
Frequently asked questions
Is a registered deed enough?
No. The transfer is completed by mutation in the land revenue records.
What is a fard?
The extract of the record of rights. A fard malkiat is what a bank or court asks for.
My property is in a DHA scheme.
Those run on allotment and transfer letters from the authority, not a registered deed.
Why is the revenue record so hard to read?
Punjab records use a Persian-script shorthand. We transcribe what is legible and mark what is not.
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