Fake CNIC: another Afghan man arrested with facilitator

CHITRAL: Police in Drosh have arrested an Afghan national and his local facilitator for trying to get a computerized national identity card on production of fake domicile and birth certificates.

The arrests were made on the complaint of officials of the National Database and Registration Authority’s Drosh office.

As per FIR registered in the Drosh police station, assistant director NADRA Sharif Ahmed approached the police with the request to register a case against Mohammad Yousuf of Arandu Gol for facilitating Afghan national Sher Hassan in obtaining CNIC.

The police registered the case under sections 419, 420, 461, 478 and 34 of Pakistan Penal Code.

Yousuf admitted to the Nadra staffers that he had got the Afghan man included in his family record showing him as his son after taking Rs15,000 from him.

It was the second incident of its nature in Drosh, where Afghans had tried to get Pakistani CNICs with the help of the residents of Arandu border village.–Dawn