A policy is being made to award citizenship to foreigners who have beenliving in Pakistan for consecutive seven years.
Chairman NADRA, Tariq Malik, has said that a policy is under formulation togrant citizenship to foreigners who have been living in Pakistan for sevenyears. He gave these remarks addressing the 8th annual National DataPrivacy Conference organized by Digital Rights Foundation (DRF) inIslamabad on Wednesday.
Chairman NADRA Tariq Malik further said that if any person has any interestin Pakistani citizenship, we will grant him citizenship, and the policy inthis regard will come out soon.
Addressing the conference, the Chairman NADRA claimed that the data ofNADRA is completely secure and to date, the data has not been hacked norhas a security breach taken place.
He added that there could be instances of data leakage, for which strictaction is taken. Chairman NADRA said that a policy is being formulated togive citizens the right to check their data. He also said that citizenswould be given the right to check whether a bank or FBR has checked theirdata in one year.
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He further said that 40 million families have been asked to check theirfamily data. Chairman NADRA said that the police and other agencies thattake data from NADRA will be audited and no agency is allowed to store datafrom the NADRA database to their own. Mr. Malik highlighted the importanceof a data protection law in Pakistan to ensure standardization of dataprivacy practices as an important part of the “social contract betweencitizens and the government”. He highlighted that sections 28 and 29 of theNADRA Act provide legal safeguards against privacy breaches and NADRA ismoving towards anonymization of personal data.
Addressing the conference Minister for Human Rights, Shirin Mazari, saidthat the government is not taping the phones of any journalist, if it’s thecase the journalists can go to the courts.
