KARACHI, June 3: The Chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, Imran Khan, has urged the Minister of the Interior, Lt-Gen Moinuddin Haider (retd), to take cognizance of the reported injustice by the National Aliens Registration Authority (NARA) and police against Bengalis residing in Pakistan.

Talking to Gen Haider here on Monday, Mr Khan drew his attention towards injustices and excesses perpetrated on Pakistani Bengalis by NARA and police as the latter had allegedly been extorting them under the pretext of checking their national identity cards and other documents.

He told the minister of the interior that every Pakistani, including Bengalis settled in Pakistan, enjoyed equal rights. “They deserve the rights of a Pakistani citizen,” he said.

The minister assured the PTI chairman that he would talk to NARA officials to address the problems of Bangalis, and told him that the Government of Pakistan was well aware of their problems, and it had already constituted a committee in this regard.—PPI