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Article 85 of Qanun-e-Shahadat Ordinance, 1984 talks about Public documents in the following manner:
The following documents are public documents:---

(1) documents forming the acts or records of the acts;

(i) of the sovereign authority;

(ii) of official bodies and tribunals; and

(iii) of public officers, legislative, judicial and executive, of any part of Pakistan, or of a foreign country;

(2) public records kept in Pakistan of private documents;

(3) documents forming part of the records of judicial proceedings;

(4) documents required to be maintained by a public servant under any law; and

(5) registered documents the execution whereof is not disputed.

COURT DECISIONS

1.                  Public document

2.                  Admissibility of certified copies in evidence

3.                  Roznamcha waqiati

4.                  Registered sale-deed

5.                  Certified copies of certified copies 

6.                  Registered Nikahnama

7.                  Register of Births and Deaths

8.                  Production of certified copies of Public Documents 

1.         Public document‑.All documents of a judicial proceedings, were not necessarily “Public documents” and certified copies of such documents which were not `public documents’ were inadmissible in evidence‑‑‑Documents which were not copies of judicial record, should not be received in evidence without proof of signatures and handwriting of persons alleged to have signed or written them‑‑‑Statements previously made in Court could not be allowed to form part of proceedings unless identity of persons making such statements established‑‑‑
Objection of formal proof of documents must be taken at earliest point of time‑‑‑
When documents once were admitted in evidence, objection against such admission could not be allowed at appellate stage‑‑‑
Admission of a document in evidence without objection from opposite side, would dispense with requirement of its formal proof. 
1992 M L D 884 
PLD 1967 Lah. 1051;
PLD 1973 SC 160;
Khawaja Muhammad Razzaque v. Omar Farouk 1982 CLC 318;
1983 SCMR 1137;
PLD 1968 SC 140;
PLD 1975 SC 678 ref.

Public document could not be ignored merely because the same was not confronted and was not produced in Court within seven days‑‑‑
Intrinsic value of a public document was to be examined on its contents‑‑‑
Where it was not proved that copy of a public document was a false document nor it had been shown that Government functionaries had any special interest to manipulate the same as to deprive any person from his property, and the party concerned, in cross‑examination, had admitted its contents, there was no need for getting such document confronted. 
P L D 2002 Supreme Court 4

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