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Indian Consulate Introduces Machine Readable Passport |
2007-05-06 |
Syed Patel, a middle aged driver hailing from Gulbarga in the southern state of Karanataka, was the first Indian expatriate to receive a machine readable passport when the new system was introduced at the Consulate General of India yesterday. “I am thrilled to have the passport that is machine readable as it will be free of errors and fraud,” Patel told Arab News as he received his passport from Consul General Dr. Ausaf Sayeed. Yes, but does it have a religion column? The new system was introduced in Riyadh in July last, more than a year after it was first introduced by any overseas Indian mission, in the UK, the consul general told a press conference later. |
Posted by:Fred |
#2 Less. An European company sold Pakistan a large quantity of the color shifting inks used in bank notes and passports. This was supposedly for Pak currency. To date, not one Pak bank note uses this ink. It is generally assumed that the ISI counterfeiting operation bought the lot. |
Posted by: John Frum 2007-05-06 12:48 |
#1 I am thrilled to have the passport that is machine readable as it will be free of errors and fraud,” Give the pakis two weeks. |
Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-05-06 11:44 |