60 glsr 10.31703/glsr Global Legal Studies Review glsr 2708-2458 2708-2466 Humanity Publications Pakistan 393213 10.31703/glsr.2021(VI-II).05 3682 1.0 article Proactive Role of Public Prosecutors in the Administration of Criminal Justice: .. Kasuri Muhammad Ramzan Conceptualization Writing – original draft Mahmood Ata Ullah Khan Writing – review & editing Ahmed Ghufran Writing – review & editing Assistant District Public Prosecutor, Anti-Terrorism Court Rawalpindi Punjab Pakistan Department of Law Assistant Professor International Islamic University Islamabad Pakistan Faculty of Law, University of Sialkot, Sialkot Assistant Professor Punjab Pakistan Corresponding Author: Muhammad Ramzan Kasuri, Assistant District Public Prosecutor, Anti-Terrorism Court Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan.

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The public prosecution service is an inevitable feature of the Criminal Justice System (CJS). A key position is assigned to the public prosecutor in the administration of the CJS, who exercises considerable powers and responsibilities, who acts with independence, impartiality, and integrity. In present era, neither the rule of law can be upheld, nor can the human rights be protected without effective role of prosecution services that has become one of the essential pillars of the CJS, an essential component of the Rule of Law,powerful center having a lot of authorities and center of attraction. The world is moving towards a prosecutorial justice system. With the help of comparative and qualitative research methodology, this article aimed to analyze the role and function of the public prosecutor in the CJS of different legal systems that enable us to revamp our system in the right direction for making it efficient expeditious, and cost-effective.

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The public prosecution service is an inevitable feature of the Criminal Justice System (CJS). A key position is assigned to the public prosecutor in the administration of the CJS, who exercises considerable powers and responsibilities, who acts with independence, impartiality, and integrity. In present era, neither the rule of law can be upheld, nor can the human rights be protected without effective role of prosecution services that has become one of the essential pillars of the CJS, an essential component of the Rule of Law,powerful center having a lot of authorities and center of attraction. The world is moving towards a prosecutorial justice system. With the help of comparative and qualitative research methodology, this article aimed to analyze the role and function of the public prosecutor in the CJS of different legal systems that enable us to revamp our system in the right direction for making it efficient expeditious, and cost-effective.

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