ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan said that a multi-pronged mechanism has been introduced in the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) as a national security drive.
Talking to media on Friday, he said that an e-passport system will be introduced in the country during the next three months and NADRA centres will be set up in big cities including Karachi, Lahore, Gujranwala, Peshawar and Quetta during the next five months.
According to Nisar, these centres will be later extended to the whole country and that a Monitoring Helpline of NADRA will be set up under Ministry of Interior’s supervision.
He said the work on the revivification of CNICs and Passports is underway and the fake CNICs and Passports have been blocked while action will also being taken against those officials who involve themselves in illegal activities.
Nisar said that during the last four months, 82.5 million CNICs out of 105 million CNICs have been revivified – out of these about 60,000 were fake but almost 50,000 have been blocked and intelligence agencies are working on the reaming 10,000 CNICs.
