Poor labourer complains of hurdles in getting CNIC for wife

TIMERGARA: A poor labourer on Monday demanded the Federal Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad and high-ups of the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) to take notice of the hurdles being created for him in the acquiring of computerised national identity card (CNIC) for his wife.

Talking to reporters in Lower Dir district headquarters Timergara, Liaquat Ali, from Batal Usherai in Upper Dir district, said that he was a daily wager working in Timergara and residing in Zulam Pul area for the last three years.

“Last week, I visited Mardan along with my wife and children in connection with my wife’s treatment and I faced immense difficulties as my wife had no CNIC,” Liaquat Ali said, adding that on his return from Mardan, he decided to apply for his wife’s CNIC.

He said his in-laws hail from Arang area in Bajaur district. Liaquat Ali said he deposited Rs2500 in the Nadra Timergara office and took his sister-in-law to the Nadra office to make CNIC of his wife.

The daily wager said that first Nadra staff asked him to deposit the fee and when he paid it, they told him to bring along domicile certificate, death certificates, NIC photocopies of siblings and parents of his wife and several other documents, which was not possible as both his father-in-law and mother-in-law had died without having getting CNICs while his brother-in-law was in Malaysia in connection with his job.