Malik wants Bengalese CNICs issue to be resolved.

ISLAMABAD -- Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Interior Senator A Rehman Malik has said that non-issuance of computerized national identity cards (CNICS) to Bengalese living in Pakistan for decades needed to be addressed with consensus of all stakeholders.

In response to a report submitted by Ministry of Interior, Senator Malik said that non-issuance of CNICs to Bengalese had been a continuous source of inconvenience for Bengalese and other communities who had been living in Pakistan before 1970. 'This is because National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) is denying issuance of CNICs to them,' he said.

He said that the matter needed to be solved on urgent basis and one-time indemnity should be given to all of them who are already registered with the government of Pakistan as ex-Pakistanis and Mohajir.

He said that the government might reconsider the clauses of Pakistan Citizenship Act, 1951 aiming to give a relief to already registered Bengalese and others settled in Sindh...