Pakistan- Nadra bans issuance of smart card till March 31

(MENAFN- Tribal News Network) ISAMABAD: National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) has placed a month-long ban on issuance of smart cards. Officials at the department told Tribal News Network that the ban was imposed on technical grounds.

All branches of Nadra throughout the country are directed not to issue smart cards. The ban is likely to end on March 31.

There are two types of Identity card in Pakistan CNIC and SNIC. CNIC is Urdu version computerized card and SNIC is Pakistan's first national electronic identity card.

NADRA introduced the Smart National Identity Card (SNIC), Pakistan's first national electronic identity card, in October 2012. Pakistan's SNIC contains a data chip and 36 security features. The SNIC complies with ICAO standard 9303 and ISO standard 7816-4. The SNIC can be used for both offline and online identification, voting, pension disbursement, social and financial inclusion programmes and other services. NADRA aims to replace all 89.5 million CNICs with SNICs by 2020, according to media reports.

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