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This Pakistani work is now in the public domain because its term of copyright has expired according to the Copyright Ordinance, 1962 as amended by Copyright (Amendment) Ordinance, 2000 (details).

The work meets one of the following criteria:

• it is a photograph, a cinematographic work or a sound recording and at least 50 years have passed since the end of the year of its publication (or since the year of creation for photographs from before independence in 1947, as per the Copyright Act 1911).
• it is a governmental or anonymous work and at least 50 years have passed since the end of the year of its publication.

To the uploader: Please provide all relevant authorship and publication details.

This work is in the public domain in the U.S. because it is an edict of a government, local or foreign. See § 313.6(C)(2) of the Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices, 3rd ed. 2014 (Compendium (Third)). Such documents include "legislative enactments, judicial decisions, administrative rulings, public ordinances, or similar types of official legal materials." These do not include works first published by the United Nations or any of its specialized agencies, or by the Organization of American States. See Compendium (Third) § 313.6(C)(2) and 17 U.S.C. § 104(b)(5).

A non-American governmental edict may still be copyrighted outside the U.S. Similarly, the above U.S. Copyright Office Practice does not prevent U.S. states or localities from holding copyright abroad, depending on foreign copyright laws and regulations.