A total of 34,116 prohibited and 98,423 non-prohibited bore arms licences have been issued by the interior ministry from March 2008 to Dec 2010, says a document placed in the parliament.
According to the authentic document, a total of 13,954 prohibited and 43,457 non-prohibited bore arms licences have been issued in the country from March to Dec 2008. Some 11,205 prohibited and 32,088 non-prohibited arms licences were issued in 2009 while 8,957 prohibited and 22,878 non-prohibited arms licences were issued in 2010.
As many as 10,210 prohibited and 14,569 non-prohibited bore arms licences were issued to Balochistan form March 2008 to December 2010. Some 4234 prohibited, 22,869 non-prohibited licences were issued to KPK, 11284 prohibited and 33,221 non-prohibited licences were issued to Punjab, and 8,458 prohibited and 27,764 non-prohibited licences were issued to Sindh province from March 2008 to December 2010.
Moreover, National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) issued 33,575 prohibited and 20,896 non-prohibited arms licences from Jan 2011 to Aug 2013.
According to year-wise breakup, Nadra issued 7,970 prohibited and 7,326 non-prohibited arms licences in the year 2011, 3,590 prohibited and 4,736 non-prohibited arms licences were issued in 2012 and 22,015 prohibited and 8,834 non-prohibited arms licences were issued from February to August 2013.
Nadra has established 164 National Registration Centres (NRCs) across the country for renewal of old arms licences. All available record of prohibited arms licences have been computerised. The process would be completed soon and so far the record of over 200,000 prohibited, non-prohibited bore arms licence have been computerized.