November 15, 2008	Saturday	Ziqa'ad 16, 1429

KARACHI, Nov 14: A civil judge and judicial magistrate (south) on Friday sent 11 Nadra and Pakistan Post employees to jail on remand till Nov 22 in a case pertaining to the issuance of fake computerised national identity cards (CNICs), passports and driving licences.The suspects — Mohammad Saleem Memon (postman) and Ghulam Hussain (peon) of the Lyari Post Office — and Nadra employees — data entry operators Arshad Hafiz, Ashraf Gujjar, Asif Raza, Sarfraz Solangi, Shahid Ahmed and Johnson Saleem, supervisor Raffat Iqbal, peon Pareen Shah and security guard Shahzad Ahmed — were arrested by the FIA from Nadra’s Awami Markaz offices in Lyari, Defence and Keamari.

The FIA team claimed to have recovered 1,890 blank CNICs and forged documents from the possession of Saleem Memon and Ghulam Hussain, and quoted them as telling the investigators that they and their associated suspects had been running the illegal business for seven years.—Staff Reporter