National Database & Registration Authority (NADRA) since its inception has issued 101,665,198 cards out of which 125,674 are blocked which makes a percentage of 0.12% of total cards, revealed the data available.
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan Thursday revealed in the National Assembly that 100,000 fake Identity cards (ID) have been blocked during last year and action is being taken against the responsible persons.
CNICs are not blocked without any reason. However, when a report is received through security agencies that an individual has obtained CNIC fraudulently or on fake documents, their CNIC’s are blocked by NADRA.
Before blocking the card, a Legal Notice is served to the individual under Section 23 of NADRA Ordinance. If the individual fails to appear before Verification Board constituted by NADRA, CNIC is blocked.
Later on, if individual approaches NADRA with correct particular and documents, his/her card is modified and restored after a systematic procedure and board proceedings. For this purpose, verification boards have been constituted in all zones and regions of NADRA. However, cases of “Confirmed Aliens” are not restored till his/her National status is verified by Joint Verification Committees (JVC)/security agencies.
On directives of Ministry of Interior NADRA has also made concrete efforts for establishment of Joint Verification Committees (JVC) at grass root level. JVC is composed of representatives from:—IB, ISI and Special Branch. JVC are functional at Provincial Headquarter and District level in Punjab, Balochistan and KPK. Blocked cards are restored on basis of reports of JVC.
Nisar Ali Khan said when he took over the Ministry, there was a backlog of five hundred thousand passports which was cleared in two months. He said action is being taken against corrupt people in NADRA and Directorate of Immigration and Passports.
He said services of over two hundred corrupt employees of NADRA have been dismissed during the last one year. He said one hundred thousand fake ID cards have also been blocked during last year and action is being taken against the responsible persons.
The Minister said 13 mega NADRA centers are also being set up in the country where prompt and international standard service will be provided.
