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GUJRANWALA, March 31: The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) has cancelled its agreement with the Post Office authority for the distribution of computerized national identity cards.
Punjab Nadra director-general Brig Tariq Moeen told Dawn on Monday that the decision had been taken after receiving complaints about the irregularities in the distribution of NICs for the last few months.
He said an inquiry was conducted which proved that Post Office employees were not performing their duties properly and that they threw the NICs at tea stalls or shops.
He divulged that around 2,000 cards were found lying at various tea stalls and shops in various cities and towns. The Nadra, he said, had finalized a strategy to prepare the computerized cards by its mobile units.
For this purpose, he said mobile teams were being constituted for remote areas which would provide forms to people which would be got verified by union council Nazims after filling it instantly. The cards would be distributed by the Nadra through its own arrangements.
He gave out that 112,000 cards lying with the Nadra could not be distributed due to defective and incomplete addresses.
CONDEMNED: At least 17 Nazims of the district council condemned an aggressive attitude of the Ghakkhar RHC in-charge with an MPA in his office.
At a meeting held here on Monday, they threatened to take out a protest procession if a case was not registered against the medical officer for humiliating MPA Mazher Javed.
The Nazims who lodged their protest are: Sheikh Yaqoob, Mian Rashid, Malik Sarwer, Imtiaz Rasul, Shabbir Cheema, Sheikh Ghulam Sarwer Hashmi, Amjad Raza Khokher, Chaudhry Jamil Hinjra, Naseem Safdar Warraich, Master Sardar Muhammad, Raza Miran, Chaudhry Ali Muhammad, Muhammad Saleem, Muhammad Nawaz, Ghulam Mustafa, Zulfikar Warraich and Chaudhry Inayatullah.
On the other hand, the Pakistan Medical Association also condemned the manhandling of Ghakkhar RHC in-charge Dr Muhammad Akram Bagri by the MPA and his men.
At a meeting presided over by PMA president Dr Ishtiaq Safdar Tarar, the participants pledged that they would protect the rights of medical officers at all forums.
