NADRA to issue CNICs to orphans from today, NA told

Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Thursday said the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) had been directed to issue Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs) to orphans and the process would start from today (Friday). “I have directed NADRA to issue CNICs to orphans on production of an authority letter from any registered orphanage centre,” Malik said while responding to supplementary questions during the National Assembly question hour. He said Pakistan’s name had been removed from the international watch list on human trafficking due to efforts of the FIA.
On its role in addressing corruption, the minister said the FIA had so far recovered Rs 808 million lost in corruption. To a question, the minister said Transparency International was a small institution, therefore, its report was not final and it should be noted that corruption in Pakistan could never measured on the same tools used in Europe.