{"id":874333,"date":"2025-09-20T02:12:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T07:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/20\/public-accounts-subcommittee-informed-about-theft-of-thousands-of-passports\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T02:12:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T07:12:45","slug":"public-accounts-subcommittee-informed-about-theft-of-thousands-of-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/20\/public-accounts-subcommittee-informed-about-theft-of-thousands-of-passports\/","title":{"rendered":"Public accounts subcommittee informed about theft of thousands of passports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<article data-id=\"1942706\" id=\"1942706\" data-layout=\"default\" data-tags>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption><span>Listen\u00a0to\u00a0article<\/span><\/figcaption><audio preload=\"metadata\" controlslist=\"noplaybackrate nodownload\" id=\"tts\" controls src=\"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/newskit-tts-service\/1942706.6d7c4736-a5f6-466a-8afe-9401295b6bc4.mp3\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) was informed on Wednesday about the theft of thousands of passports from passport offices across the country.<\/p>\n<p>In a meeting of Subcommittee IV of the PAC, chaired by Tariq Fazal Chaudhry, Passports Director General Mustafa Qazi revealed that thousands of passports had been stolen from 25 passport offices across the country \u201cin different years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll passports in these cases were blocked,\u201d Qazi said. \u201cThey have not been reviewed, nor will they be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Audit authorities said in the meeting that 32,600 passports were stolen from passport offices in Abbottabad and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a very worrying matter,\u201d Chaudhry said. \u201cUnder the current circumstances, these stolen passports could be misused.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Passports DG said, \u201cThe Ministry of Interior arrested the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1906434%5D\">foreigners<\/a> who illegally went to Saudi Arabia from Pakistan. Riyadh has deported Afghan citizens from there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Qazi added that after the incident, the passport system will be completely digitised, and auditing authorities noted that a cyber-audit of the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) was conducted two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow it has become very difficult to produce fake documents,\u201d DG Qazi said.<\/p>\n<p>The subcommittee instructed DG Qazi to submit an inquiry report.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Tyisha Wiers <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1942706\/public-accounts-subcommittee-informed-about-theft-of-thousands-of-passports\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen\u00a0to\u00a0article The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) was informed on Wednesday about the theft of thousands of passports from passport offices across the country. In a meeting of Subcommittee IV of the PAC, chaired by Tariq Fazal Chaudhry, Passports Director General Mustafa Qazi revealed that thousands of passports had been stolen from 25 passport offices across<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":874334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23795,120],"tags":[6212,5973],"class_list":{"0":"post-874333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-accounts","8":"category-public","9":"tag-accounts","10":"tag-public"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}