{"id":103131,"date":"2025-04-25T15:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T15:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=103131"},"modified":"2025-04-25T15:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T15:16:13","slug":"saudi-arabia-identifies-1296-afghans-with-counterfeit-pakistani-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2025\/103131\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia identifies 1,296 Afghans with counterfeit Pakistani passports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pakistan(National Times)- ISLAMABAD: The Senate Committee on Interior and Narcotics was informed on Thursday that Saudi authorities had identified 1,296 individuals with fake Pakistani passports, who were later confirmed to be Afghan nationals,\u00a0<em>The News<\/em>\u00a0reported. Chairing the meeting at Parliament House, Senator Faisal Saleem Rehman directed the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) to provide a detailed update in the committee\u2019s next sitting on action taken against officials involved in issuing bogus documents and tampering with the national database. The Senate standing committee meeting was held under Senator Rehman\u2019s leadership. In the meeting, Senator Irfan Siddiqui asked how many passports were made in the last 5 years that did not belong to Pakistanis. DG Passport Mustafa Jamal Qazi said a total of 1,296 individuals holding bogus Pakistani passports were later identified as Afghan nationals.\u00a0 \u201cApart from this, 45 more cases have come,&#8221; he said. DG Passports said that it has been reported that these people have been deported to Afghanistan. \u201cOf those who were punished for making fake passports, 35 are assistant directors,\u201d he said. Also, thousands of bogus Pakistani passports were made, and most of these passports are from KP and Gujranwala, Gujarat. \u201cThere are 4,500 passports for which we do not have data while 3,000 passports were made by photo-swapping, 6,000 were fakes made by intruding into Nadra data. These 12,000 bogus passport holders are not in Pakistan.\u201d The committee also discussed reforms regarding the expiry of CNICs. The chief operating officer, Nadra, explained that, according to Nadra rules, every CNIC must be renewed every ten years.\u00a0 During the meeting, the chairman raised the issue of the inclusion of unrelated individuals in the family trees of genuine CNIC holders.\u00a0 To counter such fraud, Nadra has now adopted a policy requiring physical verification of the applicant\u2019s blood relatives, along with biometric capture of the family member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan(National Times)- ISLAMABAD: The Senate Committee on Interior and Narcotics was informed on Thursday that Saudi authorities had identified 1,296 individuals with fake Pakistani passports, who were later confirmed to be Afghan nationals,\u00a0The News\u00a0reported. 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