With approximately 2.32 million computerised national ID cards (CNICs) issued in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, NADRA has registered 99 percent of the adult population in the region, NADRA Deputy Chairman Tariq Malik said in a statement on Saturday. The statement said Mirpur district topped the registration list with 100 percent of the adult population being registered, while Kotli, Bhimber, Sudhnoti, Bagh and Poonch districts had got 99 percent of the adults registered. The percentage was 92 in Haveli, NeelumValley, Hatian and Muzaffarabad.
It said AJK had seen its registration surge after the 2005 earthquake, while the recent registration drive was just to bridge the gap, with a total of 2.32 million adult citizens of AJK having up to date CNICs as of now. The statement added that NADRA had been issuing CNICs in AJK for the last ten years, adding that NADRA offered its mobile registration service to the people in remote and far flung rural areas of the region to register the poorest of poor and women who were unable to come to NADRA’s registration centres in urban areas.
Malik stressed that all CNICs issued by NADRA were genuine and if somebody had suspicion, they could verify any card by using NADRA’s SMS service.
Tariq Malik said that on June 25, NADRA had established facilitation centres at Muzaffarabad and PHQ Islamabad to verify the authenticity of CNICs that would work until the completion of AJK election.
“In case any party or candidate or an individual has any complaint regarding the use of fake CNICs, they could contact our facilitation centres or check themselves using the SMS service,” Malik said.
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