GUJRANWALA, Feb 26: People have urged the government to extend the validity of manually-prepared National Identity Cards for another six months in the wake of Nadra's inability to issue computerized cards on time.

Long queues are daily sighted outside the Nadra office at municipal complex on GT Road and the swift centre at Trust Plaza, as Nadra officials raise various objections to applications and make people visit the offices again and again.

Some people from far-flung areas, queued up outside the Nadra offices, expressed their resentment on Nadra's failure to deliver the cards on time and demanded that the old cards be declared valid, as they were facing a lot of problems in completing their documents. Some visitors suggested that validity of the old cards be extended by six months.

SADIQABAD: The state of affairs in Nadra is being deplored in the social circles here and revival of the old NICs being demanded. A majority of illiterate people desirous of getting CNICS have complained that they have to repeatedly visit the Nadra swift centres as they do not possess any documented evidence of their age.