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| India-Pakistan |
| Interior minister grilled over NIC issued to slain Taliban leader |
| 2017-11-09 |
| [DAWN] Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Wednesday informed Senate in a written reply that ‐ contrary to media reports that Afghan Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... leader Mullah Mansoor had been carrying a Pakistain passport and National Identity Card (NIC) ‐ it had emerged that the card had actually been issued to a man named Muhammad Wali, son of Shah Muhammad. The minister said in the statement that a departmental inquiry against all National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) officials involved in issuing the 'fake' NIC had been completed. At least three officials had been handed a "major punishment" ‐ removal from service. The minister said cases have also been registered against the accused and judicial proceedings are ongoing in the case. Responding to the minister's assurances, Senator Farhatullah Babar was not satisfied that action had only been taken against lower-level Nadra employees. "This is not the solution to the problem," he said, asking that the government should investigate who gave the orders for the card to be issued, if it was not already doing so. |
| Posted by:Fred |