SHEIKHUPURA: Muridke city police claim to have busted a gang allegedly involved in providing fake computerised national identity cards (CNICs) to Afghan nationals on Saturday.
The police said they raided a rented house in Basra Colony and arrested five people identified as Liaqat, Jehangir, Waleed, Iftikhar and Jafar Islam and recovered 24 CNICs from their possession.
The police said that during initial interrogation, the suspects revealed that they got prepared fake CNICs from different Nadra offices, including those in Sheikhupura, Chakwal, Mandi Bahauddin, Kasur and Bahawalnagar districts, in connivance with the staff posted there.
Further investigation is under way.
Published in Dawn, February 14th, 2016
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