Islamabad:
The permanent senatorial committee was informed Thursday that more than 12,000 Afghan nationals have been captured in the past five years while it went to Saudi Arabia on false Pakistani passports.
The Committee, which met its president Faisal Saleem to the president, reported a briefing on the situation of the law and the order to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) as provincial interior secretary and inspector general (IG) of the police did not attend the meeting.
At the start of the meeting, the participants offered Fateha for the disappeared soul of the late senator Taj Haider. While, taking the elements of the agenda, the participants showed reservations on the absence of KP officials. The president has postponed the briefing to the next meeting.
The director general of passports Mustafa Jamal Qazi informed the meeting that 12,000 people reached Saudi Arabia on false Pakistani passports. Among them, 3,000 had photos to exchange photos, while 6,000 passports were issued by the falsification of national data database and registration authority (NADRA).
“Most of the people who have traveled to these false documents have been expelled in Afghanistan. None of them is now in Pakistan,” said Qazi to the Committee. He added that measures had been taken against several officials from the Nadra department and passports, involved in the case of false passport.
When a member of the committee asked if measures had been taken or simply low -rank officials, DG passports replied that 35 assistant administrators were also included among the people who faced the action.
The DG passport also raised the issue of financial problems in its department. He said they earned 50 billion rupees per year for the government, but they had toured government offices to request the budget.
Meanwhile, the question of vehicles with tinted windows was also discussed during the meeting. The director of the Department of Accerse, Muhammad Bilal, told the Committee that since August, several arrests had been procedure and Rs33 million had been inflicted on fines on vehicles with tinted windows.
Committee members raised the issue with regard to law actions against such vehicles. In this regard, officials of the Ministry of the Interior told participants that there was no specific law on this issue. The president proposed to the ministry concerned to set fees for this purpose.
In addition, the Committee expressed seriously concern about illegal activities in Islamabad guest houses. The president has revealed that many guest houses in the federal capital become cafes, bars and drug skills.
Islamabad IG assured the committee to take measures against illegal guest houses and drug traffickers. The president highlighted a zero drug tolerance policy. He asked for a list of all guest houses in Islamabad and a full report on the measures taken against them.
