Chairman of the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), Tariq Malik, said Monday that 47 staff had been dismissed for manufacturing false identification cards.
Senator Talha Mahmood, the head of the Senate Standing Committee on Interior Affairs, highlighted the subject of false identification cards during a meeting with Tariq Malik.
Senator Mahmood has a list of 45 persons whose banned Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs) have been unlocked, according to him. He said that in exchange for a home, a NADRA official unlocked the cards.
Fake identification cards were previously provided to Al-Qaeda members, according to Mahmood.
NADRA has been reorganised, according to Malik, under the orders of Prime Minister Imran Khan.
He also stated that he has received 87 reports of NADRA personnel providing forged identification cards, with 47 of them having already been fired.
“On the problem of false identification cards, a letter has been addressed to the Director General of the ISI,” Malik said, adding that fraudulent cards were banned using artificial intelligence (AI).
NADRA is beginning a countrywide verification and renewal push, according to Malik, in which CNICs would be validated using artificial intelligence.