ISLAMABAD: A report that was presented by the interior ministry on Saturday revealed that there are at least 58,301 fake National Identification Cards (NIC) which are being used by people in the country.
“At least 17,438 people from Punjab, 13,870 from Sindh, 11,603 from Balochistan and 10,200 from Khyber Pukhtunkhawa (KP) hold fake identification cards,” stated the report.
The report further stated that 816 people from Islamabad, 3,626 people from FATA, 702 people from Jammu and Kashmir, and 46 people from Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) are using forged ID cards.
The interior ministry report went on to reveal that at least 3,640 foreign citizens are also using forged Pakistani NICs. It said that all such IDs will be cancelled once they have been identified.