(Owais Kayani) DG Passport Mustafa Jamal Qazi has given good news to the citizens that all the backlog of passports will end in October.
According to details, talking to 24 News, Mustafa Jamal Qazi said that 2 weeks ago it was revealed that Afghans were making passports, those who made passports to Afghan citizens were arrested in Baluchistan Ziarat and Harnai Passport Centers, Afghani and The involved officials of the passport office were arrested.
Mustafa Jamal Qazi further said that 70,000 passport applications are being received daily, our capacity to print passports is only 22,000 per day. 20 printers, 6 desktop printers and new e-passport machines are reaching us this month.
The machines will arrive in the last week of August, all the passport backlog will be cleared in October, our passports are 20 years old machines, we are also making new software.
DG Passport said that the agent mafia has been eliminated from the centers, 75 FIRs have been registered, more than 35 agents have been sent to jail, duplicate passports have been completely wiped out, new passport centers have been established along the Chaman border. Overseas Pakistanis are getting passports at the same time, only online applicants are facing difficulty due to biometric and photograph.
2024-08-17 14:43:52