National Database and Registration Authority
The National Database & Registration Authority (NADRA) () is an independent and autonomous agency under the control of the Interior Secretary of Pakistan that regulates government databases and statistically manages the sensitive registration database of all the national citizens of Pakistan.
Descriptive
The ID card has the following information on it:
Legal Name,
Gender (male, female, or transgender),
Father' s name (Husband' s name for married females),
Identification Mark,
Date of Birth,
National Identity Card Number,
Family Tree ID Number,
Current Address,
Permanent Address,
Date of Issue,
Date of Expiry,
Signature,
Photo, and Fingerprint (Thumbprint) NADRA also records the applicant' s religion, but this is not noted on the CNIC itself.
NADRA has registered over 90% of women in the Pakistan. Although NADRA has started issuing ultra modern SCNIC (Smart Computerized National Identity Card) too having information both in English and Urdu languages respectively.
History
After the 1971 war resulted in East-Pakistan gaining independence as Bangladesh, a new statistical database system was needed to ensure the safety of Pakistan' s citizens as well as the national security of the country as questions were being raised over who was a Pakistani and who was not. So the Bhutto regime introduced a national registration act in the Parliament of Pakistan to establish an authority to issue photo IDs to all registered Pakistani citizens.
Related pages
Pakistani passport
References
Other websites
CNIC at NADRA
Identification documents
Politics of Pakistan
2000s establishments in Pakistan