Online Visa System for Pakistan by NADRA

Advertisement

The Interior Minister of Pakistan, Ch. Nisar Ali Khan issued necessary directions to NADRA to set up the centralized digital databank so that they can issue visa to all foreigners through Pakistan missions across the world. He said that NADRA should develop the necessary mechanism, which would help the aliens to get the online visa appointment for any category of visas to travel to Pakistan. This mechanism will help to bring transparency and clarity in this system.

The high level meeting was conducted in Ministry of Interior and the honorable interior Minister chaired the meeting, which was also attended by Chairman NADRA, Secretary Interior, DG Air Wing and the Senior Officers of the Ministry of Interior. The interior minister also said that the central digital databank for visa appoint and visa issuance would help the state to keep an eye on the foreigners, who visit Pakistan. On the directions of Interior Minister, Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan, the letter was written by the Prime Minister office during the last government, which gave authority to the ambassadors in US to issue visa after getting approval from Islamabad was drawn in 2014.

The honorable minister said that it is necessary to make the whole exercise more clear and transparent. During last three years, a lot of work has been done to ensure that no foreigner should enter Pakistan without getting proper visa and documents, and these documents should be verified before issue. He also gave orders to NADRA to develop the online system for provision of visas and everything comes on the record and there will be no space for any irregularity.

During the meeting, the future of Air Wing post 2017 of Ministry of Interior was also discussed and the Interior Minister said that the Air cover of the Ministry of Interior fights against the drug peddlers, militancy, extremism and terrorism in various sensitive areas on Pak-Afghan border and specifically in Baluchistan and it is the great source of support for the security forces. The interior minister also directed the ministry that they make the plan as Air Wing will continue providing support to the security agencies post 2017.

The minister of interior imposed the ban on NADRA as they cannot take the buildings on rent and they should refrain from buying the land on the commercial rate to set up their offices. The minister directed NADRA to review the rates, which are given to private contractors for renovation of NADRA mega centers and it centers across Pakistan. The interior minister directed NADRA to prepare new rules and regulations to infuse the transparency for hiring the private contractors and the public money is not meant to give them in favor of the contractor mafia.

The minister of interior said that NADRA should have approach to the provincial government to buy the land on the government rates in order to establish their offices. The minister gave one week deadline to NADRA to put up the proposal for the preparation of the rules and regulations for the contractors and settle the rates for the renovation and construction work.

He said that they should look at the financial wrong doings of past to purchase the land and building on the rent and it is pertinent that NADRA should stop such practice for good.

NADRA has already developed their software company, National Technology Limited and the interior minister gave orders to close down it. The honorable minister said that NTL was the source of financial misappropriation and it has been closed down due to plug in financial bungling. Despite of closing down NTL, the international commitments of NADRA would not be affected and the requisite amendments would have been done to settle the international obligations of NADRA and the contractors with the foreign institutions and countries.

Online Visa System for Pakistan by NADRA

Online Visa System for Pakistan by NADRA

 





Advertisement

Comments are closed.