Pakistani National Identity Cards issued to Afghan intelligence personnel: Senator

National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) has issued Pakistani computerized national identity cards (CNICs) to Afghan intelligence personnel, Senator Talha Mehmood, the chairman of Senate Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat told the media today (Wednesday).

He said at an in camera session of the committee, he disclosed that hundreds of Afghan and Tajik persons had been issued CNIC cards. “The passports of the foreigners with Pakistani identity cards also had Indian visas on them,” the senator claimed.
Mehmood added that the list of the identity card holders had been handed over to the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and they would investigate the foreigners holding Pakistani CNICs. The bureau has been asked to submit a report in this regard. He said the intelligence agencies had provided Nadra with a list of suspicious persons and directed them to look at their CNICs but Nadra didn’t act on those recommendations.
The senator said that 150 identity cards of Tajik persons were found in Lahore and while the cards were blocked, no arrests had taken place.