ISLAMABAD: The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) on Monday blocked Computerized National Identity Cards (CNICs) of absconding PTI leaders in cases of May 9 riots.
The Interior Ministry on the recommendation of the Punjab police directed the NADRA to block CNICs of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leaders (PTI) leaders who were declared absconders in May 9 riots cases.
The absconded leaders, whose CNICs have been blocked, include Murad Saeed, Azam Swat, Hammad Azhar, Aslam Iqbal, Karam Khokhar, Ali Amin Gandapur, Wasiq Qayyum Abbasi, Musarrat Cheema, Jamshed Cheema, Zubair Niazi, Malik Nadeem Abbas and Ghulam Muhiuddin.
According to police, the CNICs of PTI absconders will remain blocked until their appearance before ATC courts in May 9 cases.
Several Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leaders are facing probe after the May 9 incidents that were triggered across Pakistan after the arrest of the PTI chairman in the Al-Qadir Trust case. The National Registration and Database Authority (NADRA) rejected the reports of blocking computerised national identity cards (CNICs) of any absconding citizen in connection with the probe against 18 absconders in the May 9 riots case. –Agencies
