PESHAWAR, Nov 17: The NWFP governor is likely to inaugurate the Personal Identification Secure and Comparison Evaluation System (PISCES) at the Peshawar Airport on Tuesday.

The system has already been installed at Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore airports with the financial and technical assistance of Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Sources told Dawn that four computers of the system had been installed at the arrival and departure terminals of the airport to get the database identity of the incoming and outgoing passengers.

At Peshawar, the PISCES would be linked with three international airports. Quetta Airport is the next place where the PISCES system would be installed shortly, while the remaining airports and exit points would be provided the facility by March next year, the sources maintained.

The function of PISCES is to computerise the record of passengers travelling into and out of the country to check the movement of suspected terrorists and illegal immigrants.

The sources maintained that the Peshawar Airport was among the most sensitive exit points as more than three million passengers travelled to Gulf regions every year from this airport.

The Pakistani staff had been provided necessary technical training to operate PISCES, they said.

The purpose to install PISCES at airports was to help the immigration officials, who some times could not identify illegal immigrants due to loopholes in the existing system, the sources said.

All the intelligence and law enforcement agencies would benefit from the system to solve even the criminal cases.