Islamabad:
The Senate Interior Committee was reported on Thursday that more than 12,000 Afghan nationals were captured in the last five years while traveling to Saudi Arabia in Pakistani fake passports.
The committee, which met with its president Faisal Salem in the president, deferred information on the situation of the law and order in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) as the provincial interior secretary and the inspector general (IG) of the Police did not attend the meeting.
At the beginning of the meeting, the participants offered Fateha for the deceased soul of the late Taj Haider senator. Meanwhile, taking the items on the agenda, the participants showed reservations about the absence of KP officials. The president postponed the informative session until the next meeting.
Director General Passorts Mustafa Jamal Qazi informed the meeting that 12,000 people arrived in Saudi Arabia in Paso Pasos PakistanÃes. Of these, 3,000 had passports with photographs, while 6,000 passports were issued by the manipulation of the national database data and the registration authority (NADRA).
“Most of the people who traveled in these false documents were deported to Afghanistan. None of them are now in Pakistan, he said that the committee. He added that measures had been taken against several officials of the Nadra Passport Department, involved in the false passport case.
When a committee member asked if measures were taken or simply low -ranking officials were punished, DG passports responded that 35 assistant directors were also included among those who faced the action.
The Passport DG also raised the question of the financial problems of its department. He said they earn RS50 billion annually for the government, but they had rounds from the government offices to request the budget.
Meanwhile, the problem of vehicles with dyed windows was also taken at the meeting. The director of the Special Tax Department, Muhammad Bilal, told the Committee that since August, several arrests were made and RS33 million were imposed in fines in vehicles with dyed windows.
The members of the committee raised the issue under which measures against such vehicles were being taken. On that, an officials of the Ministry of Interior told participants that there was no specific law on this issue. The president proposed to the department worried to establish a rate for this purpose.
In addition, the Committee expressed a serious concern about illegal activities in the guest houses in Islamabad. The president revealed that many guest houses in the Federal Capital become coffees, bars and drug lair.
The Islamabad IG assured the committee to take measures against illegal and drug traffickers. The president emphasized a zero tolerance policy in drugs. He looked for a list of all guest houses in Islamabad and a complete report on the actions taken against them.
