Peshawar:
The High Court of Peshawar (PHC) published an opinion at the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) and asked for an answer within 14 days in a short request contesting the blocking of computerized national identity cards of an entire family (CNICS) and the refusal to issue Form B for their children.
A bench including judge Ejaz Anwar and Judge Waqar Ahmad heard the petition tabled by Taj Bibi and his family.
Representing the petitioners, lawyer Malik Shehbaz Khan informed the court that Taj Bibi and his four children are Pakistani citizens.
He explained that when his son Muhammad Ullah asked for a CNIC, he was told that his father’s CNIC Sher Rehman had been blocked, which prevented the issuance of his identity card.
Later, Sher Rehman’s CNIC was reactivated and Muhammad Ullah received his CNIC in 2018. However, when Taj Bibi recently asked for the renewal of her CNIC, she was informed that not only her husband’s CNIC Sher Rehman, but all of the family CNICs had been blocked.
