FACTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Asif Mahmood Jah.
Qualification

MBBS from king Edward Medical College Lahore ( 1987 – 1988 )

Passed CSS examination in 1991 and was placed in Customs and Excise Group.

Present Posting.

Additional collector customs. Lahore

Previous Assignments

1. Mayo Hospital, Lahore.
2. Worked on unicef sponsored projects with Aurat Foundation.
3. Joined Central Board of Revenue As Assistant Collector Customs in 1992 & worked as Assistant Collector / Deputy Collector Additional Collector customs, Sales Tax & central Excise at various stations including Karachi, Multan, Faisalabad & Lahore. Monitored / supervised revenue Collection with special emphasis on plugging of revenue leakages, through information gathering and strict enforcement control from 2003 to January 2007.
4. Worked as Additional Drector, Directorate General of Intelligence & Investigation ( Customs and Excise ) Regional Office, Lahore from May 2003 to February 2007 where main job was to plug the revenue leakages in the revenue department by ensuring effective enforcement & other checks on tax evaders and their connivers. There was special emphasis on control of smuggling of contraband goods including narcotics.
5. Worked as Add Collector Sales Tax and Federal Excise, Regional Tax Office, Lahore (2007 - 2009)

Intellectual Property Rights

1. Special interest in the field of “Intellectual Property Rights”.
2. Many consignments of pirated CD`s and counterfeit medicines were seized from Lahore Airport under my supervision.
3. Represented Pakistan in a conference of regional heads of law enforcement agencies on the problem of pirated optical Discs” in Dubai.
4. Member of “Intellectual property Enforcement Coordination Committee” constituted by IPO- Pakistan.

Other fields of Interest. Practicing Medical Doctor, opened free medical Clinics for the poor & needy patients At various places of posting at present running a charitable Hospital in Lahore and Lahore-Swat Maternity Home in Takhat Bai, Mardan, Khyber Pukhatoon Khwa under the banner of Customs Health Care Society which are providing free diagnostic as well as curative health care facilities to the poor & non affording patients for the last 10 Years.

• Training of community health Workers.
• Causing Health awareness for the last 15 years through medical columns in national dailies / magazines and informative books.
• Special interest / experience in Disaster Relief Management. Took active part in Octover 8th Earthquake Relief Work & a team doctors / bolunteers led by the unde4rsigned provided medical / relief supplies to more then 25000 Earthquake effecters by working day and night in the Quake hit areas of NWFP and Azad Jammu & Kashmir and 29th October, 2008 Earthquake in Ziarat.
• Working for the Care and Welfare of the IDPs of Swat, Malakand and South Waziristan since may 2009.

Publications.

• Cure with care and its Urdu translation “Ilaj Mein Ihtiyat”
• Health Care
• Teenage Tinglings
• Teenage Guide (Urdu)
• Family Health (Urdu)
• A Travelogue to Japan (Suraj Devta Key Des Main)
• Dwa-Ghiza aur Shifa.
• Zalzala Zakhum aur Zindgi


• Ziarat, Zalzala aur Zindgi
• Swat, Higrat Aur Khidmat
• ALLAH, KAABA AUR BANDA