Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain said that it was his fundamental right, as a Pakistani national, to get the national identity card (NICOP) and passport.
In a statement issued from London, Altaf Hussain said he had been waiting for his national identity card and passport for over one month, as the government is using delaying tactics including fingerprints and photographs.
Pointing at the federal interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, the Muttahida chief said it was sorely regrettable that the federal minister was lying over the issue, adding the minister should have informed him earlier, if the photograph was not up to the mark to be used.
The MQM chief said the federal government was making a fuss over the NADRA crew who visited his residence and took his fingerprints and photographs.
Altaf Hussain also gave example of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s daughter Maryam Nawaz, who sought to change her name in the identity card. A Nadra team raced up to her house to complete the procedure and she got the new identity card the very other day.
The MQM chief complained it was political victimization on the part of the federal government that is unwilling to issue him his new NICOP.
