The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has confirmed that over 400,000 individuals have checked their family records since the re-verification drive was formally launched.
According to statistics released by NARDA on Monday by, over 13,000 complaints of inclusion of unknown members in families of Pakistani nationals since the launch of a CNIC re-verification drive on July 1. Around 3.25% of these individuals have complained about the presence of aliens in their family trees.
NADRA and Ministry of Interiors launched a massive re-verification drive of registered families of Pakistanis under the pretext of national security after a Pakistani identity card and passport was found in possession of former Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, who was killed in a US drone strike in Balochistan on May 21.
Earlier, the country’s premier spy agency had also sent a report to NADRA, informing the authority about the recovery of Pakistani CNICs from several foreign terrorists associated with al Qaeda and Taliban who had been killed in counter-terrorism operations in areas bordering Afghanistan.
Later investigations unearthed more claims about foreigners managing to obtain Pakistani CNICs by bribing as low as Rs 10,000 to NADRA officers. The situation forced Pakistan’s interior ministry to re-verify the family records of all Pakistanis.
The citizens have been asked to simply send an SMS writing their CNIC number to 8008. In response, NADRA would inform about all the individuals registered in the family with the authorities.
