Court stops Nadra from blocking CNICs of Mohmand family.

PESHAWAR -- A Peshawar High Court bench on Thursday restrained National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) from blocking Computerised National Identity Cards of four brothers and their families, who claimed that the name of a stranger was illegally included in their family tree after which the authority started taking action against them.

The bench of PHC Chief Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan and Justice Mohammad Nasir Mehfooz issued notice to Nadra director general and directed him to submit comments within 10 days to the petition jointly filed by Izatullah Khan, his four brothers and their families.

The petitioners claimed that if their CNICs were blocked they would become alien citizens of their own country and it would leave them as stateless persons.

Advocate Saifullah Muhib Kakakhel appeared for the petitioners and stated that the CNIC of one of his clients Fazal Rabi was blocked by Nadra despite the fact that he was a citizen of Pakistan and the authority wanted to block identity cards of other petitioners as well.

He stated that the petitioners hailed from Mohmand district of erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas and were presently residing in Peshawar. He added that his clients owned properties including ancestral properties and had all the relevant record.

Mr...