NADRA is issuing CNIC cards to Afghan refugees. Sharbat bibi who got fame from famous photograph on National Geographic magazine.
Performance of NADRA is open challenge.
How many other illegal cards are in air?
Pakistan issues CNIC to Nat Geo’s famed ‘Afghan Girl’ - Pakistan - DAWN.COM
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Why? That isnt a good step. As much as this Afghan girl should be welcomed as a celebrity BUT Afghani national not Pakistani, so no point of issuing her a NIC.
On the other side, NYtimes has reported that Pakistan is actually crackingdown Afghan refugees pushing them to leave:
Refugees Are Pushed to Exits in Pakistan
By JOSEPH GOLDSTEINFEB. 23, 2015
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A camp near Jalalabad, Afghanistan, is now home to many Afghan former refugees.CreditAndrew Quilty for The New York Times
TORKHAM, Afghanistan — First, the Afghan families’ homes were raided by Pakistani policemen wielding sticks. Then the men were hauled off to jail, released only after relatives paid bribes.
When they had nothing left to pay, they said, they were told to leavePakistan forever and return to Afghanistan — officially their native country, but a land foreign to many Afghan refugees after generations of flight across the border.
Such experiences have become increasingly common for Afghans living inPakistan after the terrorist attack on a school in Peshawar in December. Though the attack was claimed by the Pakistani Taliban, the Afghan refugees say it fueled a new wave of resentment against them. Since then, almost a thousand Afghans a day have been streaming through the border crossing at Torkham, many saying they were forced out, others worried enough to pick up and leave.
It is not clear if the pressure on Afghans to leave Pakistan is the result of a widespread policy, or if local officials are taking advantage of the situation to expel unwanted refugees, as many Afghans suspect. But the numbers have clearly been growing. Afghan officials who screen traffic at Torkham report that more than 33,000 undocumented Afghans returned from Pakistan in the first six weeks of 2015 — more than for all of 2014.
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Children whose families recently crossed into Afghanistan camped near Jalalabad. The families say they were given no choice but to leave Pakistan.
Clinging to the backs of trucks, some of the Afghans tried to put on brave faces.
“It’s an honor to come back to my country,” said Wazir Khan, 32, as he and his family lingered in a long line of colorful cargo vehicles awaiting inspection before entering Afghanistan.
Mr. Khan was born in Pakistan, and the only lifeline he had to his Afghan homeland was scrawled in blue ink on his left palm: the phone number of an in-law he was supposed to call once he crossed the border. Still, he insisted, “It’s a joyful moment.”
The United Nations says that there are nearly 1.5 million registered Afghan refugees in Pakistan, and there are many more hundreds of thousands of unregistered Afghans living in the country. The Pakistani authorities have long said that they would like the Afghans to return home, concerned that their presence on Pakistani soil undermines security.
But some of those who say that they have been driven out in the past two months are registered refugees. Salim, 35, who like many Afghans goes by one name, said that when he showed his refugee card to the police who raided his home in the part of Kashmir controlled by Pakistan, an officer threw it on the ground. “They kept telling us that they have orders to expel all Afghan refugees,” he said.
If true, that would violate international covenants, and the United Nations’ refugee agency has complained to Pakistan about such episodes after the Peshawar attack. Some rights groups, like Human Rights Watch, have called on Pakistan to halt the apparent expulsions.
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Haji Hazrat washed just outside the Afghan city of Jalalabad. He had lived in Pakistan for about 30 years after fleeing the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.CreditAndrew Quilty for The New York Times“We have got news of registered Afghan refugees being rounded up during police crackdowns after the Peshawar attack and have conveyed our concerns to government counterparts in Islamabad,” a spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Babar Baloch, wrote in an email. He added that his agency “was quick in conveying our reservations on the roundups as soon as it began, right after the Peshawar school attack.”
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Although Pakistan has denied that an officially supported roundup is underway, at least one official suggested that there was some sort of formal effort to repatriate refugees: A spokeswoman for Pakistan’s Foreign Affairs Ministry, Tasnim Aslam Khan, said at a recent news briefing that the registered refugees were scheduled to leave Pakistan by the end of this year. “We would like to see them return to their country in dignity and on voluntary basis,” she said.
She also said there were indications that places with high concentrations of unregistered Afghan refugees “are being used as terrorist hide-outs, and we have to take action.”
For Nek Mohammad Khan, a 29-year-old Afghan man who left Peshawar with his family in late January, the last straw came after his fourth arrest by the Pakistani authorities. His first arrest came just two days after the Peshawar school attack: The police barged into his home, beating his father and arresting all the men in the family, he said. His Afghan neighbors faced similar treatment.
“Every time I was arrested, they would say, ‘It was because you’re Afghan, and we will kick each and every one of you out of this country for killing our poor Pakistani boys,’ ” he recalled, frustrated because he had felt grief for the families of the students killed at the school.
After each arrest, Mr. Khan bribed his way out. But his money finally ran out, and he, his wife and their seven children packed a few possessions and hired a driver to bring them to Afghanistan.
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At the Torkham border station, guards have been stunned by the numbers of people crossing into Afghanistan. One high-ranking border official estimated that 300 to 400 families cross daily, well over 1,000 people. They arrive in trucks piled high with beds, chairs, clothes and other household items, with children perched on top.
Throughout the night, long after the border has closed for the day, trucks full of returning Afghans pull up, one border police officer said. “They beg us, ‘Please allow us to come to our country,’ ” the officer said, requesting anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the news media. “So we let them in, and they all say they have been beaten and slapped and told nobody in Pakistan wants them anymore.”
Though many returning Afghans have relatives who will take them in, others have nowhere to go. In Jalalabad, the closest big city on the Afghan side of Torkham, 15 families pitched tents along a canal two weeks ago, lacking any other recourse. Their children pulled turnips from a nearby field, their most reliable source of food.
They all come from the Pakistani-controlled part of Kashmir, where Afghans settled more than 35 years ago, fleeing the Soviet invasion.
In their pockets, the men carry handwritten notes, bearing a government stamp, which they received in a police station after they had been arrested. Each one states that the person has entered into an “agreement” to leave. Some of the slips of paper direct the bearer to head “toward Afghanistan.”
A few miles from the border, at a way station maintained by the International Organization of Migration, an intergovernmental group, an 8-year-old boy named Qutuz asked where his family was headed.
“We are going to the homeland we are from,” his mother, Pari Gul, explained. But in an interview, she said, “It feels like we are exiled from our house and we have nothing.”
She worried most about how her six children would fare. “We have never spoken a word about this country to our children,” she said. “They have no idea what this country is; it is like they are blindfolded.”
Khalid Alokozay contributed reporting from Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
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Pakistan issues CNIC to Nat Geo’s famed ‘Afghan Girl’ - Pakistan - DAWN.COM
SirajuddinUpdated about 3 hours ago
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Sharbat Bibi as pictured on her Nadra form - Nadra photo
PESHAWAR: National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) officials in Peshawar issued Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs) to Afghan woman Sharbat Bibi and two men who are said to be her sons, official documents reveal.
Sources at Nadra’s Hayatabad office told Dawn that high-ups in the Nadra issued three CNICs on a single day last year to the 46-year-old Sharbat Bibi, wife of Rehmat Gul, and her two sons Rauf Khan and Wali Khan in violation of rules and regulations.
“These people are so powerful; I don’t know whether they have money or connections but they got three CNICs in one day,” said a Nadra source.
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Men identified by Nadra as Sharbat Bibi’s sons Wali Khan (L) and Rauf Khan (R).
In 1984, Sharbat moved to Peshawar along with her two sons and since then, she has been residing in the Nasir Bagh camp established for Afghan refugees. Earlier reports had said that Sharbat has three daughters. This is in contrast with the information on the Nadra form which maintains that she has two sons.
“They may not be her sons but this is a common practice among Afghan refugees whereby they list names of non-relatives as their children to obtain documents,” said a Nadra source.
According to the Nadra form, Sharbat is said to be a permanent resident of Peshawar’s Nothia Qadeem area.
“She lives here. We travel between Pakistan and Afghanistan depending on the security situation,” said one of her relatives while speaking to Dawn.
It is unclear how long she has been in Pakistan or if she is a registered Afghan refugee.
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An inquiry has been launched at Nadra with officials under fire for issuing CNICs to foreign nationals without legitimate documentation. When contacted, Nadra officials, refused to comment on the matter.
Read: Afghan refugees — the usual suspects
Registered Afghan refugees in Pakistan can obtain Proof of Registration (PoR) documentation.
However, it is unlawful to issue a CNIC card to Afghan nationals without adequate documentation and procedure to acquire Pakistani nationality. Last month, an accountability court sentenced two assistant directors of the Nadra to seven-year jail term for issuing bogus CNICs to Afghan refugees.
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‘Mona Lisa of Afghan war’
Sharbat Bibi became famously known as the ‘Afghan Girl’ when National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry captured her photograph at the Nasir Bagh refugee camp situated on the edge of Peshawar in 1984 and identified her as Sharbat Gula.
She gained worldwide recognition when her image was featured on the cover of the June 1985 issue of National Geographic Magazine at a time when she was approximately 12 years old.
That photo has been likened with Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.
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Sharbat Bibi.
National Geographic also made a short documentary about her life and dubbed her the ‘Mona Lisa of Afghan war’.
Take a look: Afghan Girl
She remained anonymous for years after her first photo made her an icon around the world and until she was discovered by National Geographic in 2002.
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After Sharbat’s family granted her permission to meet with the man who photographed her 17 years ago, McCurry knew immediately, even after so many years, that he had found her again.
“Her eyes are as haunting now as they were then,” he had said.
Editorial: Fate of Afghan refugees
Pakistan has been tackling the Afghan refugee crisis for over three decades; the UNHCR has acknowledged it as the “largest protracted refugee situation globally”.
This newspaper believes that repatriation should be voluntary — keeping in mind that without peace in war-torn Afghanistan, the refugees may not want to return. While the UN and those countries that have been militarily involved in Afghanistan must support Pakistan’s efforts to care for the displaced Afghans, there are steps authorities within the country can take to mitigate the problem.
For one, better border management is needed as currently, individuals can slip into Pakistan without much hindrance. People have been known to take money offered by the UN, leave for Afghanistan and soon find their way back to Pakistan. Additionally, there has been no coherent refugee policy at the national level, which is hampering efforts to effectively address the problem.
Earlier this week: Stop forceful return of Afghan refugees from Pakistan, says HRW
The Human Rights Watch (HRW) recently spoke against the forceful return of Afghanistan refugees from Pakistan, reminding the government of their obligation to protect all Afghans in the country, including those not registered as refugees.
The recent increase in the repatriation of refugees seem to indicate that the have been coerced into leaving by the local authorities, claimed HRW in a statement on Sunday.
Since the attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar, there has been notable rise in Afghan refugees leaving the country. According to the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), nine times as many Afghan refugees repatriated from Pakistan in January 2015 than in December 2014.
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At the end of the day, I am sure Pakistan has millions of illegals with valid ID cards. These corrupt zameer faroosh in (NADRA/LICENSE) offices sell their zameer for as little as 500Rs
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Registered Afghan refugees in Pakistan can obtain Proof of Registration (PoR) documentation.
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What is the solution now or is there a solution? It seems like afghans and others got a better deal than Reagan's amnesty of the eighties, but can anything be fixed moving forward?
Not to pile on politicians, but will anything be fixed here? Granted, this might be a tougher issue compared to when even burqa mullah can't be locked up or tons of other "taliban" who actively have planned and struck against Pakistan.
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this is getting interesting
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What is the solution now or is there a solution?
Well, reality is that its impossible to send all Afghan refugees who have settled in Pakistan back to their country. Probably best option is to give them citizenship & try to make them productive members of our society.
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Well, reality is that its impossible to send all Afghan refugees who have settled in Pakistan back to their country. Probably best option is to give them citizenship & try to make them productive members of our society.
There are two problems here.
1: In time of crunch, will they be loyal to Pakistan or Afghanistan.
2: If Pakistan gives citizenship to all Afghan refugees than why not to whole Afghanistan population, and that can be done by annexing Afghanistan with Pakistan. At least in that way, Pakistan can benefit too.
Afghanistan is an artificial country, that depends on Pakistan for more or less everything ... food, job and trade.
I think that Pakistan should ask for referendum in Afghanistan that if they would like to join Pakistan and become province of Pakistan (actually, there could be 3 to 4 Pakistani provinces in area that is Afghanistan) or not. They should be encouraged to vote yes, and if they say no than Pakistan should deport all Afghans in Pakistan to Afghanistan. But if they say yes to become part of Pakistan, than Pakistan can use armed force and make all tribes in Afghanistan unarmed, bring law and order there, and make them live as equal Pakistani citizen.
Doing that would have many advantages, It would be easy to do trade with central Asia and since Afghanistan is resource rich, after developing the resources, it would enrich both Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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There are two problems here. 1: In time of crunch, will they be loyal to Pakistan or Afghanistan. 2: If Pakistan gives citizenship to all Afghan refugees than why not to whole Afghanistan population, and that can be done by annexing Afghanistan with Pakistan. At least in that way, Pakistan can benefit too.
Afghanistan is an artificial country, that depends on Pakistan for more or less everything ... food, job and trade.
I think that Pakistan should ask for referendum in Afghanistan that if they would like to join Pakistan and become province of Pakistan (actually, there could be 3 to 4 Pakistani provinces in area that is Afghanistan) or not. They should be encouraged to vote yes, and if they say no than Pakistan should deport all Afghans in Pakistan to Afghanistan. But if they say yes to become part of Pakistan, than Pakistan can use armed force and make all tribes in Afghanistan unarmed, bring law and order there, and make them live as equal Pakistani citizen.
Doing that would have many advantages, It would be easy to do trade with central Asia and since Afghanistan is resource rich, after developing the resources, it would enrich both Pakistan and Afghanistan.
All issues aside, I would not trust the current pool of Pakistani politicians with anymore responsibility. They are unable to tackle the issues at-hand, how will they restructure and bear responsibility for an influx of additional populace? Corruption is already rife.
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look at her face is that the face of Utopian princess of Islamic dominance? the jihad, the butchering, burkha and else destroyed the generations of Afghan kids.
May Allah have mercy on them.
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Neither do I trust current pool of Pakistani politicians. Most Pakistani politicians are vampires in human clothing, sucking the blood of Pakistanis to get fat, bring misery, and extend their lives. Unfortunate thing is that these vampires also have large pool of loyal servants (corrupt affiliates who live on crumbs and bones they throw to them). These corrupt servants keep them safe from sunshine, service their coffins (huge illegally acquired states) when these vampires are made to sleep (run away from Pakistan by vampire killers to UK, Saudia and Dubai), and do everything for their Master preparing grounds, so that when Master comes back to suck the blood of Pakistanis and spread corruption carnage again, Master find things easy and comfortable. So, as far as thug politicians are concerned, I totally agree with you.
Anyhow, we also have a strong team of vampire killers in Pakistan. Unfortunately, many of those vampire killers are incompetent too, and when get chance, they do not permanently rid Pakistan from these vampires (execute them properly), confiscating their castle and rehabilitating their servants. .
My hope is that, we get a strong and visionary vampire killer who does the job properly and rid Pakistan from these vampires for 20 to 30 years, so that Pakistan can develop a system and live a decent life free from vampires and their exploitation, corruption, nepotism, looting and plunder.
Unfortunately, while Pakistan is infected with Vampires, Afghanistan is infected with ware-wolves. Different packs (tribes) of these ware-wolves loyal to their pack leader (tribal chief) are running all over Afghanistan, mauling innocent victims.
I do not think there is (at least at present) any competent force in Afghanistan that can tame ware-wolves of Afghanistan, but Pakistan has. I think that Pakistani vampire killers have required ability to tame Afghanistan and get rid of ware-wolves problem from that country. But Pakistan can only do that, if they are allowed to do that, and that can only happen if Afghanistan becomes province of Pakistan. … Well, that is an idea … one can disagree with that, but still, that is an idea :).
Situation in Afghanistan … please read the article on situation that exists in Afghanistan:
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Sharbat Bibi can add Wali Khan and Rauf Khan (both are not her children, but relative) as children,
Sohail Jameel has been married for over a decade now and has three children who are now of school-going age. But on the rolls of the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra), Mr Jameel is still a single man. The discrepancy came to light when he visited the Nadra office in Rawalpindi’s commercial market, on a routine visit to obtain his children’s ‘Form Bs’.
Eye-witness account: The database dilemma - Pakistan - DAWN.COM
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There are two problems here. 1: In time of crunch, will they be loyal to Pakistan or Afghanistan. 2: If Pakistan gives citizenship to all Afghan refugees than why not to whole Afghanistan population, and that can be done by annexing Afghanistan with Pakistan. At least in that way, Pakistan can benefit too.
Afghanistan is an artificial country, that depends on Pakistan for more or less everything ... food, job and trade.
I think that Pakistan should ask for referendum in Afghanistan that if they would like to join Pakistan and become province of Pakistan (actually, there could be 3 to 4 Pakistani provinces in area that is Afghanistan) or not. They should be encouraged to vote yes, and if they say no than Pakistan should deport all Afghans in Pakistan to Afghanistan.** But if they say yes to become part of Pakistan, than Pakistan can use armed force and make all tribes in Afghanistan unarmed, bring law and order there, and make them live as equal Pakistani citizen.**
Doing that would have many advantages, It would be easy to do trade with central Asia and since Afghanistan is resource rich, after developing the resources, it would enrich both Pakistan and Afghanistan.
What are your thoughts on Pak army first try to use armed force to make karachi political parties (In particular MQM) unarmed & bring law and order there and make life easier for all?
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Buahahaha.. that my friend is the summary of entire Pakistan’s story.. whether its their cricket/hockey affairs or security or political or any other. There are corrupt and incompetent authorities who first take some stupid action as per their ineptitude and then if its caught, some of their bhai banda bail them out by doing something temporarily to seal the matter for the time being. It just sucks!
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All issues aside, I would not trust the current pool of Pakistani politicians with anymore responsibility. They are unable to tackle the issues at-hand, how will they restructure and bear responsibility for an influx of additional populace? Corruption is already rife.
There is no politics in Pakistan
Never blame politicians
Only a play of establishment
Dirty and foolish
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Leave her alone. I am sure she has suffered enough in her life.
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Leave her alone. I am sure she has suffered enough in her life.
so have many (if not most) Afghanis in Pakistan, what about them?
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so have many (if not most) Afghanis in Pakistan, what about them?
Let's treat her as a special case .