Laws & Acts — Chapter 7

FIA Act 1974 · ASF Act 1975 · Agency & MOD Acts Basics

Why this chapter matters: this is the chapter for the two agency Acts the papers actually name — the Federal Investigation Agency Act, 1974 and the Airports Security Force Act, 1975 — and it is deliberately a thin Act chapter. The script count in Section 11 finds only 17 unique stems for the whole topic, and only 10 of them are Act-specific (4 FIA, 6 ASF, from the two post papers that test the Acts directly — see Section 11 for the exact split). The rest are Director-General holder questions, which rotate and therefore cannot be learned as a single “current” fact. That is why this chapter is written the way it is: both Acts are taught in full at the level the papers ask (constitution, supervision, powers, the section numbers behind the bank stems), the holder questions are taught as a dating trap rather than as facts, and the agency/MOD tail of the topic is stated as a boundary — zero MOD-act stems and zero Intelligence Bureau-act stems exist in the banks, so no MOD or IB “Act” is invented here to fill the chapter out. If you are sitting an FIA or ASF post paper, learn Sections 2–4 below first; for every other paper, the section numbers in Sections 2 and 3 and the traps in Section 8 are the whole examinable yield.

Boundary (read first): three things are easily merged and must not be. (1) The FIA is a federal investigation agency under the FIA Act, 1974 — it investigates scheduled offences anywhere in Pakistan. (2) The ASF is an airport-security force under the ASF Act, 1975 — its jurisdiction is airports, aerodromes, aircraft and civil-aviation installations, not the country at large. (3) The other agencies (ISI, Intelligence Bureau, Ministry of Defence posts) have no Act taught in this chapter, because the banks ask no Act question about them: their papers test general knowledge, and agency identification as such is already taught in GK-07 (Agencies, Days & Abbreviations). A question that names an agency is not automatically a question about an Act — Section 11 separates the two counts so the chapter’s length is never mistaken for bank weight.

Exam Trend box

• 🔁 Most Repeated: none claimed. No single fact in this chapter meets either limb: the largest same-fact cluster is the FIA Act’s 4 stems in one paper (FPSC Assistant Director FIA 2015) and the ASF Act’s 6 stems in one paper (FPSC Assistant Security Officer ASF 2014); the chapter total is 17 unique stems, far below the ≥100-question aggregate limb, and no fact recurs in ≥5 different papers. The Director-General holder question type recurs across 8 sources, but the holders differ by date (Section 5), so it is not one repeated fact and earns no mark.
• ⭐ Must Know: none claimed. ⭐ requires 🔁 first, and no fact here passes 🔁. The closest to must-know material — FIA Section 4 superintendence (Federal Government) and ASF Section 3 functions — is taught first in Sections 2 and 3 anyway, but without a mark it has not earned.
• 🆕 Newly Appeared / Recent Trend: none claimed. There is no 2025–26 Act cluster: the 2025–26 stems in this chapter are Director-General holder rotations (February 2025, December 2025, February 2026) and a 2026 PPSC holder stem, not a new Act or a new section being tested. Holder rotation is not a trend in the law.

1. The two Acts at a glance

2. Federal Investigation Agency Act, 1974 (Act VIII of 1975)

• Constitution (Section 3): notwithstanding anything in any other law, the Federal Government may constitute an Agency to be called the Federal Investigation Agency, for inquiry into, and investigation of, the offences specified in the Schedule — including an attempt or conspiracy to commit, and abetment of, any such offence. The Agency consists of a Director-General appointed by the Federal Government and such number of other officers as the Federal Government appoints as members. Two consequences follow: the FIA’s jurisdiction is Schedule-bound (it does not investigate every offence — only scheduled ones, Section 6 below), and its head is a federal appointee, not an elected or provincial officer.
• Superintendence and administration (Section 4): the superintendence of the Agency vests in the Federal Government, and the administration vests in the Director-General, who exercises such of the powers of an Inspector-General of Police under the Police Act, 1861 as may be prescribed by rules. This is the bank stem “FIA is supervised by ___ government” — answer Federal (FPSC AD FIA 2015). “Superintendence” (Federal Government) and “administration” (Director-General) are two different Section 4 limbs; a paper that asks who administers the Agency wants the Director-General, not the Federal Government.
• Powers of members (Section 5): subject to any Federal Government order, members have throughout Pakistan such powers — including search, arrest of persons and seizure of property — and such duties, privileges and liabilities as officers of a Provincial Police have in relation to investigation of offences under the Code (CrPC 1898) or any other law. A member not below the rank of Sub-Inspector may, subject to rules, exercise the powers of an officer-in-charge of a police station in any area where he is for the time being, and is then deemed to be such an officer within his station’s limits. A member not below Sub-Inspector, authorised by the Director-General, may arrest without warrant a person who has committed, or is reasonably suspected of having committed, a Section 3(1) scheduled offence. A member conducting an investigation may, by written order, direct that property likely to be removed, transferred or disposed of before a seizure order is obtained not be removed, transferred or disposed of except with his previous permission; contravention is punishable with rigorous imprisonment up to one year, or fine, or both (Section 5(6)).
• Public Prosecutors (Section 5A): the Assistant Directors (Legal) and Deputy Directors (Law) of the Agency are deemed to be Public Prosecutors and are competent to institute and conduct proceedings in cases sent up for trial by the Agency to the Special Courts constituted under any law and the Courts subordinate to the High Court. This is the bank stem ”___ and ___ will represent FIA in a special court” — answer AD Law, Legal (FPSC AD FIA 2015). The stem’s shorthand (“AD Law, Legal”) is the Section 5A pair: Assistant Directors (Legal) and Deputy Directors (Law).
• Power to amend the Schedule (Section 6): the Federal Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, amend the Schedule — add, modify or omit any entry. The Schedule is therefore not frozen at 1975: entries have been added over the decades (Anti-Terrorism Act 1997, Anti-Money Laundering Act 2010, human-trafficking and telecom entries among them).
• Delegation (Section 7): the Director-General may, by order in writing, direct that all or any of his powers under the Act or the rules shall, subject to specified conditions, be exercisable also by any member of the Agency so specified. This is the bank stem “DG FIA can delegate his authority to ___” — answer any member specified by him (FPSC AD FIA 2015), not only the Deputy Director, not only a Director, not only an Inspector. The written order and the specified member are both in the section; a delegation to an unnamed member is not Section 7 delegation.
• Indemnity (Section 8): no suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding lies against the Federal Government, any Agency member, or any person exercising power under the Act, for anything in good faith done or intended to be done under the Act or the rules. Good faith is the condition — Section 8 is not blanket immunity.
• Power to make rules (Section 9): the Federal Government may, by Gazette notification, make rules for carrying out the Act’s purposes — in particular: (a) terms and conditions of service of the Director-General and other members, and recruitment qualifications; (b) powers and functions of members in inquiries and investigations; (c) the nature and extent of assistance the Agency may provide to Provincial investigating agencies; (d) the Inspector-General-of-Police powers exercisable by the Director-General; (e) the manner of rewards to members or the public for commendable services. This is the bank stem “FIA Act may specify ___” — answer service terms (FPSC AD FIA 2015). Note the stem’s loose wording, flagged in Section 8: strictly, Section 9 says the rules may provide for service terms; the Act itself creates the rule-making power. Learn the Section 9(2)(a) subject matter, not the stem’s phrasing.
• Repeal (Section 10): the Act repeals the Pakistan Special Police Establishment Ordinance, 1948 and the Special Police and Provincial Police (Amalgamation) Order, 1962; Special Police members and pending inquiries transferred to the Agency. The FIA is therefore the successor to the Special Police Establishment, not a body created from nothing in 1975.
• Definitions (Section 2) that recur: “Agency” = the FIA constituted under Section 3; “Code” = the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898; “Director-General” = the Director-General of the Agency; “Provincial Police” = police constituted by a Provincial Government under the Police Act, 1861; “Public Servant” = as defined in PPC Section 21, including employees of federal corporations/bodies; “Special Police” = the Pakistan Special Police Establishment under the 1948 Ordinance.
• The Schedule — families, not a memorised list: the Schedule runs to 29 entries (as reproduced). The families a paper can draw from are: (i) PPC offences (including Sections 120-B, 121–124-A, 161–169, 201, 217–218, 300–302, 324, 332–337-F, 402-A–C, 406–411, 420, 468–471, 489-A–F, 499–507); (ii) Explosive Substances Act 1908, Official Secrets Act 1923, Foreigners Act 1946, Prevention of Corruption Act 1947; (iii) banking, customs, passports, emigration and exit-control statutes; (iv) Anti-Terrorism Act 1997 only to the extent of cases with inter-provincial scope or entrusted to the Agency by the Federal Government; (v) human trafficking (2002), telecom reorganisation (1996), NADRA (2002), copyright (1962), anti-money laundering (2010) and electricity (1910) entries. The ATA limitation in (iv) is the only Schedule entry with a built-in scope condition — learn it as a condition, not as an open-ended FIA power.

3. Airports Security Force Act, 1975 (Act LXXVII of 1975)

• Extent and commencement (Section 1): the Act extends to all aerodromes and airports, all civil-aviation stations, centres or offices in Pakistan, all Pakistan air services and activities relating to civil aviation; it applies to all officers and members wherever they may be; and it came into force at once. It repeals the Airports Security Force Ordinance, 1975 (XII of 1975) (Section 13).
• Constitution and functions (Section 3): the Federal Government may constitute and maintain the Force for: (a) ensuring security of all airports, aerodromes, aircraft and civil-aviation installations and safeguarding civil aviation against acts of unlawful interference or threats of such interference; (b) ensuring security of all structures, equipment, material and installations belonging to operators and other Government or non-Government organisations within airport/aerodrome limits; (c) operating and maintaining the airports’ fire services; (d) protecting the airport and its vicinity from bird hazard and pollution; (e) ensuring the proper conduct of persons at airports and aerodromes as laid down in the Aircraft Rules, 1937, including control of surface vehicles and drivers within airport/aerodrome limits; (f) ensuring security of aircraft passengers, baggage, cargo and mail within airport/aerodrome limits; (g) general maintenance of law and order within airport/aerodrome limits in conjunction with the police, taking cognizance of all offences committed at airports and aerodromes under any law; (h) such other functions as the Federal Government notifies in the Gazette. Officers and members discharge these functions in accordance with the Act, the Civil Aviation Ordinance 1960, the Aircraft Rules 1937 and the rules and regulations (Section 3(2)). This section is the source of four of the six 2014-paper stems (Section 11), including the two corrected keys in Section 8.
• Constitution and administration (Sections 4–5) — read with the 2012 amendment: the original 1975 text headed the Force with a Force Commander appointed by the Federal Government (Section 4(1) original), administering the Force under the general supervision of the Director-General (then defined as the Director-General of Civil Aviation) (Section 5). The ASF (Amendment) Act 2012 (31 December 2012) substituted “Director General” for “Force Commander” throughout the amended text (asf.gov.pk’s amended Act, December 2012). The current position taught here is therefore: the Force is headed by a Director-General appointed by the Federal Government, and the February 2026 bank stem naming a “Director General of Airport Security Force” (Section 5) is consistent with the amended text. A paper quoting the original 1975 text will still say “Force Commander” — that is a dating trap, not a different force: same Act, amended head.
• Powers and duties of officers and members (Section 6): an officer or member shall: (a) take effective measures for security of airports, aerodromes, aircraft and civil-aviation installations and against unlawful interference; (b) safeguard aircraft passengers, baggage, cargo and mail within aerodrome/airport limits; (c) prevent unauthorised persons and vehicles from access to the air-side or other security-important areas; (d) require Pakistan-registered aircraft operations to conform to prescribed civil-aviation security requirements; (e) take effective measures for preventing hijacking, sabotage, placement of car bombs, letter bombs and dangerous articles, smuggling of precious metals, stones, arms, ammunition, narcotics and any other goods whose import/export is prohibited by law; (f) use such arms, ammunition and equipment as authorised by the Force Commander (now Director-General, per the 2012 amendment); (g) search and arrest without warrant any person he suspects of endangering, attempting to endanger, or having endangered, the safety of an aerodrome or airport or an aircraft or a civil-aviation installation, using such force as necessary; (h) perform such other functions as the competent authority requires. Under Section 6(2), an officer exercises, within the Act’s areas, all the powers of an officer-in-charge of a police station under the Police Act, 1861 and the CrPC, 1898. The Section 6(1)(g) warrantless search-and-arrest power is the bank stem “An officer of the ASF has the right to search and arrest without warrant any person who he suspects of ___” — answer endangering the safety of an aerodrome (FPSC ASO ASF 2014).
• Liabilities (Section 7): every officer and member must promptly obey and execute competent orders, and is liable to serve wherever required. Violation of duty, wilful breach or neglect of a rule, regulation or lawful order, withdrawal without permission or without two months’ previous notice, failure to report after leave without reasonable cause, unauthorised outside employment, cowardice, or unwarrantable personal violence to a person in his custody, attract departmental proceedings and punishment including imprisonment up to six months and fine up to the amount of his pay for three months, as prescribed by rules.
• Indemnity, delegation, rules and regulations (Sections 8–12): no suit, prosecution or other proceeding lies for anything in good faith done or intended under the Act or the rules/regulations (Section 8). The Federal Government may delegate all or any of its powers under the Act, except those under Section 11, to the Director-General (Section 9); the Director-General may, with the Federal Government’s prior written approval, delegate his powers under the rules to a subordinate officer or authority (Section 10). The Federal Government makes rules (Section 11, including departmental punishments and custody places); the Director-General makes regulations with the Federal Government’s prior written approval (Section 12).
• Definitions (Section 2) that recur: “aerodrome” excludes any aerodrome exclusively used by the Pakistan Air Force (and any PAF-used portion of an aerodrome); “aircraft” includes balloons, airships, kites and gliders; “airport” is an aerodrome whose facilities the Federal Government considers sufficiently developed to be of importance to civil aviation; “air-side” is the movement area and adjacent controlled-access terrain/buildings; “member” and “officer” are both persons appointed to the Force who have signed the First Schedule affirmation (the distinction is rank, not membership); every officer/member receives on appointment a certificate under the Director-General’s seal (Second Schedule form), surrendered on ceasing to be a member (Section 4(4)–(5) original numbering).
• The Act-naming stem: “The responsibility for regulating the security at airports has been given to Airport Security Force vide ___” — answer Airports Security Force Act, 1975 (FPSC ASO ASF 2014, against distractors 1973 and 1971). Note the stem says “Airport Security Force” (singular) while the Act’s title is “Airports Security Force Act” (plural) — the same singular/plural short-form trap as LA-06’s “Election Act” vs “Elections Act”.

4. Agency & MOD acts — the boundary (what is NOT taught, and why)

• Intelligence Bureau: the banks contain zero stems naming an Intelligence Bureau Act, establishment law or IB power. IB post papers in the banks (1994–2018) test general knowledge — vocabulary, mathematics, Islamic Studies, world affairs — not IB law. No IB Act is therefore taught in this chapter: inventing one from general knowledge would violate the verify-everything rule, and the chapter does not pad itself with it.
• Ministry of Defence (MOD) posts: likewise zero stems naming a MOD Act or a defence-establishment law. MOD post papers (2000–2017) test general knowledge, not defence law. No MOD Act is taught here.
• Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI): ISI appears in the banks only as an identification fact (GK-07’s agency set: “Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is a secret agency of ___ — Pakistan”, FPSC Inspector FIA 2013). The one stem that joins ISI and FIA (“ISI and FIA are leading intelligence and investigation agencies of which country? — Pakistan”, PPSC Assistant Food Controller 2023) is excluded from this chapter’s count (Section 11) because it tests agency identification, not either Act, and is already covered by GK-07. ISI has no Act taught in this chapter.
• What this section does for the student: if a paper asks an FIA or ASF question, the answer is in Sections 2–3. If it asks an IB, MOD or ISI question, it is (on all bank evidence to date) a general-knowledge or identification question, and the answer is in GK-07 or the relevant subject chapter — not in a non-existent agency Act. That boundary is itself examinable knowledge: it stops a student inventing an “IB Act” under pressure.

5. Director-General holders — a dating trap, not a fact list

Every holder below is a bank-time answer: the answer keyed for the paper or CA file named, not an assertion about who holds the office in October 2026. The standing file (CA-03) and the current-affairs month files carry the live holder; a paper written after a change keys the new holder.

• FIA — 2018 and 2020 stems (answers unrecoverable from the files): “Who is the current DG of FIA (2018)?” (PPSC Junior Clerk Labour & HR 2019) keys only the letter “A”, and “Name the Current Director General of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)?” (PPSC Junior Clerk Anti-Corruption Establishment Punjab 2020) keys only the letter “B” — the option texts are not preserved in the bank files, so no holder name can be recovered from them and none is taught here. These two stems count in Section 11 (they are FIA holder stems) but teach nothing beyond “holder questions exist”.
• FIA — February 2025: Dr. Usman Anwar (CA February 2025 file, against Raja Riffat Mukhtar among the options).
• FIA — December 2025: Riffat Mukhtar Raja (CA December 2025 file).
• FIA — February 2026: “Tiffat Mukhtar Raja” (CA February 2026 file) — read as the same holder as December 2025 with a bank-file spelling variant (“Tiffat” for “Riffat”); the options in that file also offer “Dr. Usman Anwar”, so the file keys Riffat over Usman Anwar for February 2026.
• FIA — 2026 PPSC paper: Usman Anwar (PPSC Assistant Punjab Police paper 4, 2026). This conflicts chronologically with the December 2025 / February 2026 CA keys above (Riffat). The conflict is not resolved by picking a winner in this chapter: either the PPSC paper predates the change, or one bank file is stale. The lesson is the trap itself — never answer “who is the current DG FIA” from a single bank key without checking CA-03 / the month files for the live holder.
• ASF — February 2026: Major General Shoaib bin Akram as Director General (CA February 2026 file, against Major General Adnan Asif Jah among the options). Consistent with the amended ASF Act’s Director-General head (Section 3). Bank-time only, as above.

6. Rapid-fire one-liners

• FIA = Federal Investigation Agency Act, 1974 · Act VIII of 1975 · 13 Jan 1975 · Schedule-bound jurisdiction (Section 3) · DG appointed by Federal Government.
• FIA Section 4: superintendence = Federal Government · administration = Director-General (IG Police powers, Police Act 1861, as prescribed by rules).
• FIA Section 5: members’ powers throughout Pakistan — search, arrest, seizure = Provincial Police powers · Sub-Inspector+ = officer-in-charge of police station · DG-authorised Sub-Inspector+ = arrest without warrant for scheduled offences · property-freeze order, breach = rigorous imprisonment up to 1 year (Section 5(6)).
• FIA Section 5A: AD (Legal) + DD (Law) = deemed Public Prosecutors for Special Courts · Section 6: Federal Government amends Schedule by Gazette · Section 7: DG delegates by written order to any specified member · Section 8: good-faith indemnity · Section 9: rules incl. service terms Section 9(2)(a) · Section 10: repeals Special Police Establishment Ordinance 1948.
• ASF = Airports Security Force Act, 1975 · Act LXXVII of 1975 · assent 13 Dec 1975 · Gazette 18 Dec 1975 · in force at once · repeals ASF Ordinance 1975 (Section 13).
• ASF Section 3 functions (a)–(h): unlawful-interference security · operator/Government installations · fire services · bird hazard + pollution · proper conduct per Aircraft Rules 1937 · passengers/baggage/cargo/mail · law & order with police + cognizance of offences · Gazette-notified extras.
• ASF head: original Force Commander → 2012 amendment → Director-General (Federal Government appointee) · Section 6(1)(g): search + arrest without warrant for endangering aerodrome/airport/aircraft/installation safety · Section 6(2): officer = officer-in-charge of police station powers.
• ASF Section 7 liabilities: up to 6 months’ imprisonment + fine up to 3 months’ pay · Section 8 good-faith indemnity · Section 9 Federal Government delegation except Section 11 · Section 10 DG delegation with prior written approval · Section 11 rules · Section 12 regulations.
• Holders are bank-time only: FIA Feb 2025 Usman Anwar · Dec 2025 / Feb 2026 Riffat Mukhtar Raja (Feb 2026 file spells “Tiffat”) · 2026 PPSC paper Usman Anwar (conflicts — check CA-03, never answer from one key) · ASF Feb 2026 DG Maj Gen Shoaib bin Akram.
• Zero taught: no IB Act, no MOD Act, no ISI Act — zero bank stems for any of them; agency identification lives in GK-07.

7. Most-asked facts

Every fact in this section is a bank stem from Section 11, not a frequency claim about either Act:

• FIA supervision = Federal Government — asked as “FIA is supervised by ___ government” (FPSC AD FIA 2015, against Provincial / District / Military). The Section 4(1) answer.
• DG delegation = any member specified by him — asked as “DG FIA can delegate his authority to ___” (FPSC AD FIA 2015, against Only the Deputy Director / Only an Inspector / Only the Director). The Section 7 answer, in full: by written order, to any member so specified.
• Special-court representation = AD Law, Legal — asked as ”___ and ___ will represent FIA in a special court” (FPSC AD FIA 2015). The Section 5A pair: Assistant Directors (Legal) and Deputy Directors (Law), deemed Public Prosecutors.
• Rules subject matter = service terms — asked as “FIA Act may specify ___” (FPSC AD FIA 2015, against pay scales / leave rules / pension rules). The Section 9(2)(a) subject matter.
• ASF’s authority = Airports Security Force Act, 1975 — asked as “The responsibility for regulating the security at airports has been given to Airport Security Force vide ___” (FPSC ASO ASF 2014, against 1973 / 1971). The only Act-naming stem in the chapter.
• ASF’s core function = all aerodromes, airports, aircraft and civil-aviation installations + maintenance of law and order therein — asked as “The Airport Security Force is responsible for ensuring security of ___” (FPSC ASO ASF 2014). The Section 3(a) wording, nearly verbatim.
• ASF law-and-order partner = the police, taking cognizance of offences at airports/aerodromes under any law — asked as “ASF is responsible for general maintenance of law and order within the limits of airports and aerodromes in conjunction with ___” (FPSC ASO ASF 2014). The Section 3(g) answer.
• ASF warrantless power = endangering the safety of an aerodrome — asked as “An officer of the ASF has the right to search and arrest without warrant any person who he suspects of ___” (FPSC ASO ASF 2014, against abusive language / toy guns or batteries / None of these). The Section 6(1)(g) answer.

8. Traps & confusions

• 1974 vs 1975 (FIA): the short title says 1974; the Act number is VIII of 1975 and the date is 13 January 1975. A paper that asks the Act number wants VIII of 1975; a paper that asks the short title wants 1974. Swapping them is the chapter’s first trap.
• “Airport” vs “Airports” (ASF): the force is commonly called “Airport Security Force” (singular, as in the 2014 stem) but the Act’s title is the Airports Security Force Act, 1975 (plural). A paper quoting the Act’s title uses the plural.
• Force Commander vs Director-General (ASF): the original 1975 text heads the Force with a Force Commander under the Director-General of Civil Aviation; the 2012 amendment substituted Director General as head. Both wordings exist in reproductions of the Act because they are two vintages of the same Act — check the paper’s date before answering a head-of-Force question, and prefer the amended (Director-General) position for a current paper.
• Superintendence vs administration (FIA Section 4): superintendence = Federal Government; administration = Director-General. The 2015 stem asks supervision and wants Federal; an administration stem would want the Director-General.
• “FIA Act may specify service terms” — loose stem wording: strictly, Section 9 gives the Federal Government power to make rules, and Section 9(2)(a) lists service terms among the matters the rules may provide for. The stem compresses “rules under the Act may provide for” into “Act may specify”. Learn Section 9(2)(a), and do not quote the stem as if the Act itself fixed the service terms.
• Two bank keys corrected against the ASF Act text (read before trusting the 2014 paper’s keys):
  • Bird hazard (Q97): the 2014 paper asks what the ASF protects the airport and its vicinity from, offers “Birds / Gliders / Gladiators / None of these”, and keys None of these, with a bank explanation claiming the ASF protects against unlawful interference only. The Act says otherwise: Section 3(d) = protecting the airport and its vicinity from bird hazard and pollution. The Act fact to learn is bird hazard and pollution; the paper’s key is not followed where it contradicts Section 3(d), and its explanation is wrong on that point (unlawful interference is Section 3(a), a different function, not a replacement for Section 3(d)).
  • Aircraft Rules, 1937 (Q98): the 2014 paper asks “Ensuring the proper conduct of persons at airports and aerodromes as laid down in the ___”, offers “Aircraft Rules, 1937” among the options, and nevertheless keys None of these, with a bank explanation claiming none of the offered manuals lays down the conduct rules. The Act says otherwise: Section 3(e) = ensuring the proper conduct of persons at airports and aerodromes as laid down in the Aircraft Rules, 1937. The standard answer is Aircraft Rules, 1937; the paper’s key is a bank-file error and is not followed.
• “Current DG” answers expire — and here they contradict each other: the 2026 PPSC paper keys Usman Anwar for FIA while the December 2025 and February 2026 CA files key Riffat Mukhtar Raja. Do not resolve this by preference: check CA-03 / the month files for the live holder at the time of the paper. The same rule as LA-06’s CEC trap, with the extra warning that two bank sources in this chapter disagree.
• FIA jurisdiction is Schedule-bound; ASF jurisdiction is place-bound: the FIA investigates scheduled offences anywhere in Pakistan (Section 3, Section 6); the ASF secures airports, aerodromes, aircraft and civil-aviation installations (Section 3). A question that gives the FIA an airport, or the ASF a country-wide investigation, has swapped the two jurisdictions.
• FIA vs ASF search/arrest: both have warrantless arrest, but on different triggers — FIA Section 5(3): a DG-authorised member not below Sub-Inspector, for a scheduled offence; ASF Section 6(1)(g): any officer/member, for endangering (or attempting/having endangered) aerodrome/airport/aircraft/installation safety. Rank + trigger distinguish them.
• Two indemnities, same condition: FIA Section 8 and ASF Section 8 both protect only acts done in good faith. Neither is blanket immunity.
• Letter-only bank answers teach nothing: the 2018 and 2020 FIA holder stems key “A” and “B” with no option text preserved. A revision note that invents a name for either year would be fabrication — both years are recorded here as unrecoverable, not guessed.

9. Memory tricks

• “VIII-75, LXXVII-75”: FIA VIII of 1975, ASF LXXVII of 1975 — both 1975 Act numbers, one short (VIII), one long (LXXVII); the FIA’s short title year (1974) is the odd one out.
• “Superintend Federal, administer DG”: FIA Section 4 in four words — superintendence Federal, administration Director-General.
• “7 delegates, 5A prosecutes”: FIA Section 7 = DG delegates to any specified member; Section 5A = AD (Legal) + DD (Law) prosecute in Special Courts.
• “a-to-h airport”: ASF Section 3 functions run (a) security, (b) installations, (c) fire, (d) birds, (e) conduct-1937, (f) passengers-mail, (g) police-law-and-order, (h) Gazette extras — the airport’s alphabet, in Act order.
• “Endanger = arrest, no warrant”: ASF Section 6(1)(g) — the single trigger word endangering carries the whole warrantless power.
• “Commander became DG in 2012”: the ASF head’s rename year — original Force Commander, amended Director-General, 2012.

10. Visuals (site build specs — declared only, never generated)

• Section map — FIA Act: one flowchart, Sections 1–10 in order (short title → definitions → constitution Section 3 → superintendence/administration Section 4 → member powers Section 5 → prosecutors Section 5A → Schedule amendment Section 6 → delegation Section 7 → indemnity Section 8 → rules Section 9 → repeal Section 10), placed after Section 2, with the four bank-stem sections (Sections 4, 5A, 7, 9) highlighted.
• Section map — ASF Act: one flowchart, Sections 1–13 in order with the 2012 head amendment flagged on Section 4, placed after Section 3, with the six 2014-paper sections (Sections 3, 6) highlighted and the two corrected keys (Q97 bird hazard, Q98 Aircraft Rules 1937) annotated as Act-text corrections.
• Jurisdiction comparison table: two columns (FIA: Schedule-bound, Pakistan-wide; ASF: place-bound, airports/aerodromes/aircraft/installations), placed after Section 4, for the jurisdiction-swap trap.
• Holder timeline (bank-time only): a dated strip — FIA Feb 2025 Usman Anwar → Dec 2025 Riffat Mukhtar Raja → Feb 2026 “Tiffat” (Riffat) → 2026 PPSC Usman Anwar (conflict flagged) — placed after Section 5, labelled “bank-time answers, not the live holder; check CA-03”.

11. Practice this topic — bank count, marks evidence and counting honesty

• Practice set: subject=laws + topic tags of Subject 11 Topic 7 (FIA Act 1974, ASF Act 1975, agency/MOD acts basics), with the script-recomputed count below. Until the FIA Superintendent mocks convert, the site serves this stem set for the chapter; both Acts’ sections are taught from the Act texts (footer), not from bank frequency.
• Script: hidden_files/goldmine-notes-count-la07.py (mirrors LA-06). Scan: 572 files / 55,801 questions (FPSC site bank, PPSC site files, gk360 archive, CSS/monster conversions, gk360 monthly CA bank, gk360-papers archive; overlaps between banks included, as in the audit). Note the scan grew by 1 file / 38 questions since LA-06’s 571 files / 55,763 — the count below is from this run’s scan, not carried forward.
• Count: 24 rows, 17 unique stems. The split: FIA Act-specific 4 stems (all FPSC Assistant Director FIA 2015: supervision Section 4, delegation Section 7, special-court representation Section 5A, service-terms rules Section 9); ASF Act-specific 6 stems (all FPSC Assistant Security Officer ASF 2014: Act-naming, ensuring-security Section 3(a), bird-hazard Section 3(d), proper-conduct Section 3(e), law-and-order Section 3(g), warrantless search/arrest Section 6(1)(g)); FIA holder stems 6 (PPSC Assistant Punjab Police 2026; PPSC Junior Clerk 2019 with letter-only answer “A”; PPSC Junior Clerk ACE 2020 with letter-only answer “B”; CA December 2025; CA February 2025; CA February 2026); ASF holder stem 1 (CA February 2026, DG ASF). Distinct sources: 8 (2 post papers + 3 PPSC papers + 3 CA files).
• Excluded, stated not counted: 1 row — “ISI and FIA are leading intelligence and investigation agencies of which country?” (PPSC Assistant Food Controller 2023) — an agencies-identification stem belonging to GK-07, not to either Act. Zero, stated not hidden: a separate check of the same 572 files finds zero stems naming a MOD Act, zero naming an Intelligence Bureau Act, and zero naming an ISI Act; MOD and IB post papers were searched stem by stem and contain general-knowledge questions only. That zero is why Section 4 teaches a boundary instead of an Act.
• Marks, derived from the count above: no 🔁, no ⭐, no 🆕. No fact meets the paper-count limb (best single-fact paper count is 1 paper for each Act stem; the holder question type spans 8 sources but the holders differ, so it is not one repeated fact), and the 17-stem total is far below the ≥100-question aggregate limb. ⭐ requires 🔁 first, so none is claimed; 🆕 requires a 2025–26 Act cluster, and the 2025–26 stems here are holder rotations, not a new Act or section. This chapter therefore carries no marks in its front-matter — the same honest no-mark result as LA-02, and the chapter says so rather than borrowing a mark from another topic.
• Bank-file notes: (1) the two corrected ASF keys (Q97 bird hazard, Q98 Aircraft Rules 1937) are corrected in Section 8, not silently followed; (2) the two letter-only FIA holder answers (2019 “A”, 2020 “B”) are counted as stems but teach no holder name; (3) the February 2026 CA file’s “Tiffat Mukhtar Raja” is read as a spelling variant of Riffat Mukhtar Raja, the December 2025 key; (4) the 2026 PPSC Usman Anwar key conflicts with the December 2025 / February 2026 Riffat keys and is left unresolved in Section 5, with CA-03 named as the live-holder source.
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Goldmine Notes · Laws & Acts · Chapter 7 · Sources: Federal Investigation Agency Act, 1974 (Act VIII of 1975), Gazette of Pakistan, Extraordinary, Part I, 17 January 1975, as reproduced at nasirlawsite.com/laws/fia.htm — section numbers cited in this chapter were read from that text in this run (Sections 1–10 and the Schedule families); Airports Security Force Act, 1975 (Act LXXVII of 1975), Gazette of Pakistan, Extraordinary, Part I, 18 December 1975, as reproduced at nasirlawsite.com/laws/asfa.htm — section numbers read from that text in this run (Sections 1–13), with the 2012 Director-General head amendment verified against the amended Act at asf.gov.pk (ASF Act 1975 as amended up to December 2012); bank stems and counts by script hidden_files/goldmine-notes-count-la07.py (572 files / 55,801 questions, output hidden_files/goldmine-notes-la07-counts.json). No converted FIA Superintendent mock material was used — none is converted yet, and no raw monster-pack content was used. Standard answers only; bank-file disagreements are flagged in Sections 7–8 and the run log, never silently followed.