100,000 Pakistanis lose nationality for being ‘suspect aliens’

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LAHORE: About 100,000 Pakistanis have lost their ‘nationality’ as the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) has either blocked their computerised national identity cards (CNICs) or refused to renew them because their status was “suspect (alien)”.

The Nadra has intensified its exercise to identify ‘aliens’ among the CNIC holders.

“The Nadra has meticulously been scrutinising the ‘suspect CNICs’ and so far around 100,000 such CNICs have been blocked. The holders of the blocked CNICs are not Pakistanis, most of them being Afghans,” Nadra spokesman Faik Ali Chachar told Dawn.

“As the Nadra has a ‘foolproof’ system, it is blocking dubious CNICs,” he said.

However, neither Mr Chachar nor Nadra Chairman Usman Mobin could explain as to how did the ‘non-Pakistanis’ manage to get the CNICs in the first place… see more

source: dawn

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