PHC seeks reply on blocked CNICs

The Peshawar High Court (PHC) has issued a notice to the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) and sought a response within 14 days in a writ petition challenging the blocking of an entire family's Computerized National Identity Cards (CNICs) and the refusal to issue Form-B for their children. A bench comprising Justice Ejaz Anwar and Justice Waqar Ahmad heard the petition filed by Taj Bibi and her family. Representing the petitioners, Advocate Malik Shehbaz Khan informed the court that Taj Bibi and her four children are Pakistani citizens. He explained that when her son, Muhammad Ullah, applied for a CNIC, he was told that his father Sher Rehman's CNIC had been blocked, which prevented the issuance of his identity card. Later, Sher Rehman's CNIC was reactivated, and Muhammad Ullah received his CNIC in 2018. However, when Taj Bibi recently applied for the renewal of her CNIC, she was informed that not only her husband Sher Rehman's CNIC, but the entire family's CNICs had been blocked.

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