Services of 61 Nadra employees terminated

Posted on February 22, 2012 by nadra

ISLAMABAD – The management of NADRA in a late Tuesday night development terminated the services of its 61 employees all over the country on the charges of disturbing the essential services of the Authority, sources aware of the development informed TheNation.

A senior officer of NADRA management connected with the development informed that termination letters had been issued to 61 employees and these would be served upon them immediately at their residential addresses. He said that action had been taken after the approval of the competent authority for causing disruption in NADRA’s essential services as well as the Authority’s communication network, causing damage to its infrastructure and to avoid threat to compromising Nadra’s database. He further said that the step had been taken in violation of NADRA standing operating procedures (SOPs) and action would also be taken against them under the Pakistan Essential Services (Maintenance) Act, 1952

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Vote-checking through SMS from March 1

Posted on February 15, 2012 by nadra

ISLAMABAD: Eligible voters can verify the status of their votes in the new computerised voter lists by sending an SMS to 8300 via mobile phone from anywhere, any time across the country, an official of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) said. The official said that from March 1, the registered voters would be able to check the status of their votes and particulars through short messaging services (SMS) by just paying Rs 2 per SMS. As per procedure, an adult person by just sending his Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC) number to 8300 will subsequently receive a message of around 160 characters in Urdu. It will have the name, village/city, tehsil and district of the particular voter, location (electoral area) and serial number of vote registered in the preliminary electoral rolls, he said. The house number of voters will be kept confidential to ensure privacy and avoid misuse of the service, he said. He said after the introduction of the new service, it would be the responsibility of every eligible voter to make sure that his/her vote had been registered and to report any discrepancy to the ECP.

How to check Vote Status:

  • SMS your CNIC to 8300
  • You will get a reply with your vote status
  • Service Charges: Rs. 2 plus tax
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Nadra to prepare voters’ lists in 20 days

Posted on January 10, 2012 by nadra

ISLAMABAD: The National Database Registration Authority (Nadra), suspending its routine work for the past 20 days, has started compiling voters’ lists as well as enrolment of new voters on the direction of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), Nadra sources said. and no new CNIC would be made during 20 days, however, a desk would be established in every major city of the country to issue the CNICs made before the ban, the sources added.

The enlistment would start on January 10, 2012 and the job completed on 30th of this month, the sources said. The staff would work from 8 am-10 pm daily and complete enlistment of over 90 million voters within 20 days.

A notification in this regard has been issued by the concerned authorities, the sources said. The sources added that compilation of data of individuals would directly be linked with the Nadra and ECP headquarters.

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No foreign country has access to NADRA’s database

Posted on January 6, 2012 by nadra

ISLAMABAD – The national database is a national asset and a special system has been implemented to ensure security of the data and even the local and provincial governments do not have access to it. A NADRA spokesman stated this in a statement on Thursday.

The spokesman said that neither any country or foreign authority had access to the database nor the authority had provided any information to them. “NADRA’s database is highly secured and allegations published in a report claiming that the national registration authority has given access to US are totally baseless,”said the spokesman. He said an extremely fool proof system was put in place which is reexamined and strengthened from time to time. No individual not even the high-ups of NADRA have any control to change the procedure of security.

He said today NADRA ranked amongst the top 50 system integrators of the world who are involved with identity management systems. Data security is part of NADRA’s expertise and the authority puts special emphasis on state-of-the-art technologies. NADRA has won international projects through open and transparent bidding due to highly secure database and technology.

Resultantly NADRA has participated in rollout of Civil Registration System for Sudan, Kenyan Machine Readable Passports, Bangladesh Driving Licences, Poverty Score Card for World Bank and Afghan Refugees database for UNHCR.

He urged the local media to avoid publishing baseless news items as it affects NADRA businesses and credibility over the world, it would serve no purpose and damage the credibility of the country.

 

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FBR to put the wealthy on notice in 15 days

Posted on December 29, 2011 by nadra

KARACHI: In a desperate attempt to widen the tax base, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) will issue around 300,000 more notices to the wealthy that somehow don’t pay any taxes.

“Around 300,000 notices had already been sent to non-tax filers against 700,000 identified through records maintained by National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA),” said Shahid Hussain Asad, Member Inland Revenue (IR), FBR.

“Another 300,000 will be issued in a couple of weeks,” he added. Sources in the FBR said that the issue was discussed at the Tax Reform Core Group meeting in Islamabad last week, which was chaired by Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh.

“At the meeting, the minister was not happy with the pace of broadening the tax base,” a senior official at the FBR said, adding that the minister directed the revenue body to complete the process on a priority basis.

About two years back, the revenue body in a drive to broaden the tax base identified 700,000 wealthy people living in posh localities and also enjoying the luxury of not paying due taxes. The list was compiled on the basis of data obtained from the National Database Registration Authority (NADRA) to bring these people into the tax net.

The drive was speed up last year, however, it lost momentum in achieving some desired results in the current fiscal year, according to an official communication of the FBR. The latest data of broadening the tax base released by the FBR for the period July 1 to November 30 revealed that 9,764 new taxpayers filed returns against which the revenue body created demand worth Rs1.282 billion and recovered Rs206 million.

The situation was even better during the period from the start of the drive up to June 30 in which 30,026 income tax returns were filed where the revenue body had created demand worth Rs4.927 billion and recovered Rs277 million. —Shahnawaz Akhter

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NADRA develops SMS service to verify voter registration

Posted on December 29, 2011 by nadra

KARACHI: National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has developed an SMS service application to facilitate citizens to verify their vote registration and particulars in the voters’ list. Deputy Chairman NADRA, Tariq Malik said NADRA and ECP signed agreements with telecom companies to forge a partnership in order to launch this service. “I congratulate UFone, WARID and Telenor who stood up and offer their platforms for this national interest and expect the companies who are sitting on fence to step up to the challenge and contribute on national cause” said Malik.

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Posted on December 14, 2011 by nadra

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Nadra making e-cards to provide Zakat, Ushr to beneficiaries

Posted on December 11, 2011 by nadra

With the completion of e-system of Benazir-Muawinat-cards, NADRA would establish more than 100 outlets in order to disburse said cards in all over the province, Business Recorder learnt on Saturday.

Sindh Zakat and Ushr department and National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) are working on the making of e-cards in order to provide Zakat to beneficiaries of province with complete transparency, sources said.Almost 90 percent work has been finalised by the NADRA in this regard and President Asif Ali Zardari would inaugurate “Benazir-Muawinat-cards” scheme very soon, sources said.

With inauguration of said scheme, the NADRA would establish more than 1,300 outlets in all over the province.

A large number of outlets would be established in the suburbs of Karachi and Hyderabad, sources told.

While, outlets would also be established in all other districts as well, sources added.Through said outlets, the disbursement of Benazir cards would be carried out while NADRA would also conduct reporting and monitoring of whole new e-system, sources added.

So far, Chairmen of Zakat committees are giving cheques directly to the beneficiaries while with launching of this e-system, about 181,298 beneficiaries would draw their Zakat amount through ATM booths, sources said.”This online system of Zakat would decrease the possibilities of corruption because the involvement of human hands would be reduced automatically”, an official of Zakat and Ushr department told Business Recorder.

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Winds of change: Unmarried woman adopting girl wants Nadra to change form

Posted on November 24, 2011 by nadra
KARACHI: It is a small but significant dilemma – what does an unmarried woman write in a NADRA form when she wants to register an adopted baby? The only options are father and husband.

Why should guardian not be added, asked Ayesha Jalil, who has gone to court with a petition.

On Wednesday, the Sindh High Court took up the matter and has summoned the Social Welfare department, Edhi Foundation and National Database Registration Authority (NADRA) at the next hearing.

Ayesha Jalil has asked for a change so that orphans and other children can be registered. Chief Justice Mushir Alam and Justice Ahmed Ali M Sheikh have asked these departments to appear along with the Advocate General of Sindh and Deputy Attorney General of Pakistan on December 14. The court also appointed Barrister Salahuddin Ahmed as Amicus Curiae and has asked the honorary secretary of the SHC Bar Association to assist in the matter.

The federal and provincial law officers were also asked to submit comments and inform the bench of what arrangements have been made for orphans and street children or newly born babies who have been abandoned.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 24th, 2011.

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NADRA does not register foreigners : Spokesman

Posted on November 23, 2011 by nadra

Islamabad: National Database & Registration Authority (NADRA) has clarified that foreigners are registered by another National Alien Registration Authority (NARA)  and NADRA has nothing to do with the matter.

The NADRA spokesman in a statement clarified a news item published in some section of press regarding alien registration.   He said that is the matter relates to ambit of NADRA as it was briefed by the Interior Minister in the National Assembly. As a matter of fact a question was moved by a Member National Assembly (MNA), Syed Zafar Ali Shah, on aliens’ registration in the National Assembly and the Minister of Interior answered that the subject is related to National Alien Registration Authority (NARA). The illegal immigrants are not registered by NADRA and hence, no Computerized National Identity Card (CNIC) has been issued to them.   The spokesman said that NADRA has also created a biometric alien watch list that consists of photographs and fingerprints of Afghan national as well as illegal immigrants.   He reminded the media that NADRA and NARA are two separate entities and their scope of work is quite different. NADRA registers only citizens of Pakistan while NARA registers aliens and illegal immigrants. This difference should be highlighted in media to remove any ambiguity between the two authorities.

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