PESHAWAR: JUIF chief Fazlur Rahman Sunday urged the governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan to form a joint commission for resolution of mutual issues causing confrontation.Addressing a meeting of.
AN appalling abuse of power was reversed at the Islamabad High Court on Wednesday. The proceedings pertained to Nadra’s action in October 2019 of cancelling JUI-F leader Maulana Hamdullah’s CNIC in effect, revoking his citizenship on the grounds that he was an ‘alien’ and had obtained his identity papers through fraudulent means.
In a 29-page judgement, Chief Justice Athar Minallah wrote: “Citizenship is the most valuable basic right of a human. All other rights, whether social or political, cannot be enjoyed if a person does not have a bond of citizenship with a state.” The court ordered Nadra that it said had acted in an “arbitrary and reckless manner” to restore the CNIC of the former senator as well as those of other petitioners who had been subjected to the same on similar grounds. It held that the authority did not have the jurisdiction to initiate such proceedings on the basis of intelligence reports.
IHC says NADRA cannot cancel citizenship based on intelligence reports
Pakistan
JUI-F leader Hafiz Hamdullah. File photo
The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) cannot revoke the citizenship of any citizen based on a mere intelligence report, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) has ruled.
IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah on Saturday issued a detailed 29-page judgment in JUI-F leader Hafiz Hamdullah s case.
NADRA, on October 11, 2019, had declared Hamdullah an alien and revoked his citizenship.
Subsequently, on May 19 this year, the IHC declared NADRA s action to block former senator Hamadullah s CNIC as illegal and ordered it to restore his national identity card.