ISLAMABAD -India punishes writer Atish Taseer, son of Salman Taseer forhiding his father’s Pakistani nationality.
Aatish Ali Taseer to lose the Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card as heallegedly concealed the fact that his father was of Pakistani origin.
A Home Ministry spokesperson said Taseer becomes ineligible to hold an OCIcard, as per the Citizenship Act, 1955, as the OCI card is not issued toany person whose parents or grandparents are Pakistanis and he hid thisfact.
Taseer has clearly not complied with very basic requirements and hiddeninformation, the spokesperson said.
As per the Citizenship Act, if the registration as an OCI card holder wasobtained by means of fraud, false representation or concealment of anymaterial fact, the registration as OCI card holder shall be cancelled. Theperson will also be blacklisted thereby banning his or her future entryinto India.
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The 38-year-old writer is the son of late Pakistani politician SalmaanTaseer and Indian journalist Tavleen Singh.
The home ministry spokesperson said Taseer was given the opportunity tosubmit his reply/objection regarding his Person of India Origin/OCI cards,but he failed to dispute the notice.
The spokesperson also denied that the government had been consideringrevoking Taseer’s OCI card after he wrote an article in the Time magazine,which was critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying the news was a”complete misrepresentation and is devoid of any facts”.
