Registry entry
Pakistan — Application for Company Incorporation (Form-1), Single Member Company
The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan's (SECP) Form-1, 'Application for Company Incorporation', filed under section 16 of the Companies Act, 2017, read with Regulations 8 and 30 of the Companies Regulations, 2024, via SECP's e-Services portal. Opens Pakistan's Business Formation vertical (Pakistan's first schema in this registry). Scoped to the simplest coherent pathway: a Single Member Company (SMC) limited by shares — exactly one natural person who is simultaneously the company's sole subscriber, sole director, and chief executive, together with the single mandatory nominee a Single Member Company must appoint. Out of scope: multi-subscriber/multi-director Private and Public Limited Companies (Form-1's own subscriber/director table, and its Ultimate Beneficial Owner table, are both open repeating tables sized for many rows; this version models exactly one subscriber-director-CEO, one nominee, and one direct natural-person UBO rather than a bounded or unbounded repeating group, since GovSchema's array/repeating-group proposal, GSP-0009, is not yet part of the accepted v0.3 specification), the 'Additional UBO information' table for indirect/layered beneficial ownership (Part IIA, Regulation 13(3)), companies limited by guarantee or unlimited companies (Section E's Table C/D/E pathways), the Minimum Subscription field (applicable only to Public Companies), and the witness-signature block (the form's own text states it applies 'Only for the documents submitted in physical form'; this schema assumes online e-Services filing, which the form itself says is signed electronically). It does not submit anything or imply Government of Pakistan endorsement.
Registry entry
pk/secp/company-incorporation-single-member-company
Authoritative source Form-1, "Application for Company Incorporation", issued pursuant to section 16 of the Companies Act, 2017 read with Regulations 8 & 30 of the Companies Regulations, 2024
Machine access
- Schema document
registry/pk/secp/company-incorporation-single-member-company/1.0.0/schema.jsonapplication/schema+json- Verification record
registry/pk/secp/company-incorporation-single-member-company/1.0.0/VERIFICATION.mdtext/markdown- Registry catalog
registry/index.jsonone record per schema id
Field reference
71 fields, read from the published schema.json, with names, types, requiredness, and validation as the document states them. The live government form remains the authoritative source.
Fields
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companyNamestring requiredThe proposed name of the company being incorporated.
length: 1–250 -
challanNumberstring requiredReference number of the bank challan (or e-Services equivalent) evidencing payment of the incorporation fee.
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challanAmountnumber requiredAmount paid, in Pakistani Rupees, per the fee challan.
range: 0–∞ -
registeredOfficeAddressLinestring optionalStreet/building address of the company's registered office, if given at the time of incorporation. If not given, a Correspondence Address (below) is required instead.
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registeredOfficeCitystring optionalRegistered office — City
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registeredOfficeDistrictstring optionalRegistered office — District
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registeredOfficeProvincestring optionalRegistered office — Province
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registeredOfficeTelephoneNumberstring optionalRegistered office — Telephone Number
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registeredOfficeEmailAddressstring optionalRegistered office — Email Address
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registeredOfficeMobileNumberstring requiredMobile number of the Chief Executive, Secretary, or any director, preferably WhatsApp-enabled. For a Single Member Company this is the sole director/CEO's own mobile number.
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financialYearEndstring requiredThe company's chosen financial year-end date (day and month, recurring annually).
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correspondenceAddressLinestring optionalOnly to be provided if the company has not given a registered office address at the time of incorporation (2.1 above).
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correspondenceCitystring optionalCorrespondence — City
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correspondenceDistrictstring optionalCorrespondence — District
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correspondenceProvincestring optionalCorrespondence — Province
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correspondenceTelephoneNumberstring optionalCorrespondence — Telephone Number
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correspondenceEmailAddressstring optionalCorrespondence — Email Address
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correspondenceMobileNumberstring optionalCorrespondence — Mobile Number of the Chief Executive/Secretary/any director
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isWhollyOwnedFederalGovernmentSubsidiaryboolean requiredWhether the company is wholly owned by the Federal Government and has been notified in the Official Gazette.
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principalLineOfBusinessstring requiredBrief objects of the company as per clause 3(i) of the Memorandum of Association, including up to 3 additional clauses if any.
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authorizedCapitalClassOfSharesstring requiredAuthorized Capital — Class/Kind
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authorizedCapitalFaceValuenumber requiredAuthorized Capital — Face Value
range: 0–∞ -
authorizedCapitalNumberOfSharesinteger requiredAuthorized Capital — Number of shares
range: 1–∞ -
authorizedCapitalTotalAmountnumber requiredAuthorized Capital — Total Amount
range: 0–∞ -
paidUpCapitalClassOfSharesstring requiredPaid Up Capital — Class/Kind
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paidUpCapitalFaceValuenumber requiredPaid Up Capital — Face Value
range: 0–∞ -
paidUpCapitalNumberOfSharesinteger requiredPaid Up Capital — Number of shares
range: 1–∞ -
paidUpCapitalTotalAmountnumber requiredPaid Up Capital — Total Amount
range: 0–∞ -
isSpecializedBusinessRequiringLicenseboolean requiredWhether the company's business is one requiring a license/permission/approval under Section C (e.g. banking, non-banking finance, insurance, modaraba management, stock brokerage, forex, clearing house, or a business otherwise restricted/licensed by law).
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specializedBusinessNatureDescriptionstring optionalNature of the specialized business requiring license/permission/approval.
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numberOfDirectorsinteger requiredFor a Single Member Company, the law fixes this at exactly one director.
range: 1–1 -
subscriberFullNamestring requiredFull name of the sole subscriber, who is also this Single Member Company's sole director and chief executive.
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subscriberIdentityDocumentTypeenum requiredIdentity document type
enum: CNIC | NICOP | PASSPORT -
subscriberIdentityDocumentNumberstring requiredCNIC/NICOP/Passport No
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subscriberIdentityDocumentIssueDatedate requiredDate of issue of CNIC/NICOP/Passport
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subscriberIdentityDocumentExpiryDatedate requiredDate of expiry of CNIC/NICOP/Passport
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subscriberGenderstring requiredGender
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subscriberNationalitystring requiredNationality, with former nationality and nationality of origin, if different.
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subscriberOccupationstring requiredOccupation
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subscriberAddressPerIdentityDocumentstring requiredAddress as per CNIC/NICOP/Passport
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subscriberResidentialAddressstring optionalResidential address (if different)
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subscriberNtnstring optionalNational Tax Number, where applicable.
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subscriberDesignationenum requiredFor a Single Member Company the sole natural person functionally holds all three roles simultaneously; this field records the single label the source form's own table asks to specify.
enum: DIRECTOR | SUBSCRIBER | CHIEF_EXECUTIVE -
natureOfDirectorshipenum requiredNature of directorship
enum: APPOINTED | NOMINEE | INDEPENDENT | OTHER -
nominatingEntityNamestring optionalName of entity nominating the director
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sharesSubscribedinteger requiredNo. of shares subscribed
range: 1–∞ -
sharesKindAndClassstring requiredKind & Class of shares
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nomineeFullNamestring requiredA Single Member Company must appoint a nominee, who must be a relative of the member.
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nomineeIdentityDocumentNumberstring requiredNIC/CNIC/NICOP of Nominee
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nomineeResidentialAddressstring requiredResidential address of Nominee
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nomineeContactNumberstring optionalTelephone/Mobile number of Nominee
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nomineeEmailAddressstring optionalEmail address of Nominee
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nomineeRelationshipToSubscriberenum requiredThe nominee shall not be a person other than a relative of the member.
enum: 7 values -
articlesOfAssociationTableenum requiredWhich First Schedule model articles table the company adopts, or that it attaches its own custom articles instead.
enum: TABLE_A_PART_I | TABLE_A_PART_II | TABLE_C | TABLE_D | TABLE_E | CUSTOM -
uboFullNamestring requiredScoped to direct ownership: the sole subscriber's own particulars as the company's Ultimate Beneficial Owner.
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uboFatherOrSpouseNamestring requiredFather's name/Spouse's Name of UBO
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uboIdentityDocumentNumberstring requiredCNIC/NICOP/Passport no. of UBO
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uboIdentityDocumentIssueDatedate requiredDate of issue of UBO's identity document
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uboIdentityDocumentExpiryDatedate requiredDate of expiry of UBO's identity document
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uboDateOfBirthdate requiredDate of birth of UBO
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uboGenderstring requiredGender of UBO
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uboNationalitystring requiredNationality of UBO
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uboCountryOfOriginstring optionalOnly applicable in case of a foreign national or dual national.
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uboAddressPerIdentityDocumentstring requiredAddress of UBO as per CNIC/NICOP/Passport
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uboResidentialAddressstring optionalUsual Residential Address of UBO (if different)
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uboEmailAddressstring optionalEmail Address of UBO
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uboStatusAcquiredDatedate requiredDate in which the UBO status was acquired
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declarantNamestring requiredDeclarant Name
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declarantDesignationenum requiredDeclarant Profession / Designation
enum: AUTHORIZED_INTERMEDIARY | DIRECTOR -
authorizedIntermediaryRegistrationNumberstring optionalRegistration No of authorized intermediary
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declarationDatedate requiredDate
Verification record
This file is the source-review record for this document version, per the manual-source-review-v1 practice.
Current claim
status:draftverification.method:manual-source-review-v1verification.lastVerifiedAt:2026-07-15
Why this schema and why now (GOV-3062)
GOV-3062 ("GovSchema Standard Research") is the same recurring research-cycle issue as GOV-2167/GOV-3026/GOV-3045/GOV-3049. This cycle opened with the prior GOV-3049 cycle's own delegated work already fully landed (Greece's Passport vertical, Italy's National ID vertical, both merged). A fresh gap-audit of CATALOG.md's 56-jurisdiction "By Jurisdiction" table found that almost every remaining ✗ cell across existing jurisdictions is already a documented "confirmed dead end" or "confirmed duplicate" from prior cycles (re-checked this cycle for Croatia, Jordan, Kenya, Czech Republic, Uruguay, Slovakia, Sri Lanka, and Nigeria — see below). Two candidates were independently re-verified as stale/dead this cycle:
- Sri Lanka Business Formation (the Western Province BNR-01 candidate flagged "ready-to-author" by GOV-2781/GOV-2789): the cited
bnr.wp.gov.lkS3 PDF (BN+Application+Form.pdf) was re-fetched and found, viapdfjs-disttext extraction, to actually be the Philippines DTI's "BUSINESS NAME REGISTRATION SOLE PROPRIETORSHIP APPLICATION FORM" (BNR Form No. 01-2018) — confirmed via the S3 object's ownLast-Modified: Thu, 28 Feb 2019header that this has been the file served at that URL since well before the GOV-2781 cycle's own citation, meaning that citation's "~15 fields, scanned/flat 3-page PDF" description was never actually verified against the real content. This candidate is not viable — do not re-attempt without a genuinely new, correctly- targeted source. - Nigeria DMV (the
nigeriadriverslicence.frsc.gov.ng/license/new/{token}candidate flagged "not yet ready" by GOV-2976): re-confirmed this cycle — step 1 of the live flow requires atest_certificate_numberplus aMcdlCaptchaCAPTCHA before any further step is reachable. Genuinely CAPTCHA-gated past step 1, consistent with the prior finding; still not a viable candidate this cycle.
With the in-registry backlog effectively dry, this cycle dispatched four parallel scouting passes across jurisdictions not yet in the registry (Georgia, Israel, Pakistan, Egypt). Georgia's Business Formation candidate came back a dead end (NAPR only publishes non-fillable instructional PDFs and Word legal-document templates; the actual application is filed via the CAPTCHA-gated my.gov.ge portal or in person). Israel's Tax Authority Form 1301 (Annual Individual Income Tax Return) came back a strong, cleanly- sourced candidate but is a dense ~89-item comprehensive return with a RTL-garbled pdfjs-dist text layer — high risk of transcription error within a single cycle's effort budget; delegated as a child issue (see below) rather than authored here, to give it focused, comparison- checked effort of its own. Egypt's strongest candidate (a UK-consulate- hosted visa PDF with real AcroForm /Widget fields but no extractable text layer over its scanned background) was judged a weaker primary source (a third-party consular mirror, not the issuing ministry's own domain) and was not pursued further this cycle. Pakistan's SECP Form-1 — clean .docx, directly from secp.gov.pk, no login/CAPTCHA gate, fully extractable English text — was the strongest verified candidate and is authored here, opening Pakistan as this registry's 57th jurisdiction.
Sources examined
- Document
(id, version):pk/secp/company-incorporation-single-member-company/1.0.0 - Spec version: GovSchema
0.3.0 - Authority: Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan ("SECP").
- Primary source:
- Listing page: https://www.secp.gov.pk/company-formation/formsapplications-schedule-of-filling-of-returns/statutory-forms/ — fetched directly (HTTP 200,
text/html), no login/CAPTCHA gate. Lists dozens of SECP statutory forms via WordPress Download Manager links. - Form file: https://www.secp.gov.pk/document/form-1-application-for-company-incorporation/?wpdmdl=56457 — "Form-1, Application for Company Incorporation [Pursuant to Section 16 of the Companies Act, 2017 read with Regulations 8 & 30 of the Companies Regulations, 2024]". Fetched directly: HTTP 200, content-type
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document, 162,301 bytes, sha2565e34cf31a6590936726abe70fdfacb9c07e8c2ba32ecdec22430f4d27e5ac75c— independently re-downloaded a second time this cycle and confirmed byte-identical (same sha256). - This is a native
.docx, not a PDF. Unzipped directly (python3 zipfile) and every<w:t>text run inword/document.xmlwas extracted via regex and read in full — Parts I, II (Sections A–E), IIA, and III, plus the Enclosures list and the witness block — not summarized from a rendering. Confirmed now:sdt/FORMTEXTinteractive form controls exist anywhere in the document (a fill-in-the-blank template, not a native Word form). - Every
<w:tbl>in the document was also parsed structurally (<w:tr>/<w:tc>counts and per-cell text) to confirm table shapes: the subscriber/director table (2.10) has 17 columns, each with a lettered footnote marker (a)–(q) attached to the column header itself (e.g.(a)next to "Name and surname",(b)next to "CNIC/NICOP...") — confirming these are per-column footnote references, not 17 separate repeatable data rows. The UBO table (2A.1) has 13 columns and a pre-filled Sr.no. row running 1 through 13; the "Additional UBO information" (indirect-control) table has 10 columns with a pre-filled Sr.no. row running 1 through 10 — both are genuine wide, many-row repeating tables in the live form.
- Listing page: https://www.secp.gov.pk/company-formation/formsapplications-schedule-of-filling-of-returns/statutory-forms/ — fetched directly (HTTP 200,
Scope decisions
GovSchema's repeating-groups/array proposal (GSP-0009) is not yet accepted into the v0.3 specification this document targets. Modeling Form-1's own subscriber/director table and its two UBO tables faithfully would require either an unbounded array (not representable in v0.3) or an arbitrary numeric cap not printed anywhere on the form itself (fabricating structure, not just scope). Rather than do either, this v1.0.0 is scoped to the Single Member Company (SMC) pathway — a real, commonly used Pakistani company type (not a toy example), and the only pathway on this form whose subscriber/director table and direct-ownership UBO table both reduce to exactly one row without any cap being invented:
- Subscriber/director/CEO (2.10) modeled as exactly one natural person, per SECP's own minimum-directors table at 2.9 ("Single Member Company: 01"). The "Designation (Director/Subscriber/CEO) Please specify" field is modeled as a single-select enum using the three literal labels printed on the form, even though in the SMC pathway the same person functionally holds all three roles at once — the schema captures the one value the source form's own "Please specify" instruction calls for, not an invented compound label.
- Nominee (2.11) modeled in full — mandatory only for SMCs, and the only place this form itself supplies a genuinely closed, literal enumerated list (the "Relationship of Nominee with subscriber" field's validation enum is quoted verbatim from the section heading: "a spouse, father, mother, brother, sister and son or daughter").
- UBO (2A.1) modeled as exactly one entry — the sole subscriber's own particulars, covering the direct-ownership case. The "Additional UBO information" table for indirect/layered control (Regulation 13(3)) is out of scope for this version — a genuine future companion-schema candidate for a multi-subscriber pathway once GSP-0009 lands or a disclosed bounded-cap convention is adopted for this form specifically.
gender(subscriber and UBO) is modeled as a free-textstring, not anenum— the form's own table column supplies a bare "Gender" header with no printed value list, so no enum options are fabricated.- The registered-office (2.1) / correspondence-address (2.2) conditional relationship is disclosed here in prose, not encoded as a
requiredWhen. The form's own instruction reads: "Information regarding Correspondence address is to be provided only if the company has not given its registered office at the time of incorporation in 2.1 above." Encoding this would require inventing a boolean gate field the source form does not itself print as a distinct checkbox (2.1 is headed "if any", not a yes/no question) — both address blocks are instead modeled withrequired: false. - Minimum Subscription (2.7) is out of scope — the form's own text marks it "Applicable in case of Public Companies", which this SMC-scoped version is not.
- The witness-signature block is out of scope — the form's own heading reads "(Only for the documents submitted in physical form)", and this version assumes online e-Services filing, which the form's own text states is "signed electronically."
documents[](7 entries) is derived directly from the form's own numbered Enclosures list. The Part III declaration text (3.3) is quoted verbatim into thedeclarationStatementattestation entry'sstatementfield.articlesOfAssociationCustomandspecializedBusinessNocare gated viarequiredWhenmatching the form's own conditional instructions at 2.13 and 2.8 respectively.feePaymentEvidenceis modeledrequired: false, matching the Enclosures list's own parenthetical: "(not applicable in case of online filing)".
Conformance fixtures (Phase 3)
6 fixtures committed under conformance/pk/secp/company-incorporation-single-member-company/1.0.0/: 1 valid scenario (a Single Member Company incorporation with a spouse nominee, TABLE_A_PART_II articles, not a specialized business, declarant = the director) plus 5 mutation-control fixtures, each derived from the valid fixture by a single targeted mutation. All 6 were run against a from-scratch, ephemeral field-by-field conformance checker (derived directly from this schema's own fields[]/documents[]/requiredWhen conditions, not committed to the repo) before being finalized:
valid-single-member-company-spouse-nominee.json— 0 errors.mutation-control-missing-required-field.json(dropscompanyName) — exactly 1 error.mutation-control-missing-required-document.json(dropsmemorandumOfAssociationfromdocuments) — exactly 1 error.mutation-control-invalid-enum-identity-document-type.json(setssubscriberIdentityDocumentTypetoDRIVERS_LICENSE, not in the enum) — exactly 1 error.mutation-control-missing-conditional-document.json(setsarticlesOfAssociationTabletoCUSTOMwithout attachingarticlesOfAssociationCustom) — exactly 1 error.mutation-control-invalid-date-format.json(setssubscriberIdentityDocumentIssueDateto15-03-2021, not ISO 8601) — exactly 1 error.
Structural validation
node tools/validate.mjs registry/pk/secp/company-incorporation-single-member-company/1.0.0/schema.json— ok.node tools/validate-ajv.mjs registry/pk/secp/company-incorporation-single-member-company/1.0.0/schema.json(ajv 2020-12 againstspec/v0.3) — ok.- Full-registry re-run after adding this document:
node tools/validate.mjs→ 463/463;node tools/validate-ajv.mjs→ 463/463. npm run build-indexre-run intools/govschema-client/to regenerateregistry-index.jsonwith this document included.
Maturity
structural-reference: the source .docx's own printed structure is fully transcribed from the genuine, currently-served official statutory form (a fill-in-the-blank template, not an interactive form), but no live filing through SECP's e-Services portal was attempted. GovSchema is an independent, non-profit standards body and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the Government of Pakistan or SECP.
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Version history
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Independent and non-affiliated
GovSchema is an independent, open-source project. This reference is not produced, reviewed, or endorsed by Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan or any government. The authoritative source is always the live government form and its official instructions.