FAISALABAD: Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Saturday that Mansoor Ijaz was not a Pakistani citizen and would have to apply for a visa before coming to Pakistan in order to appear before the judicial commission inquiring the memogate case.
“Mansoor Ijaz was not a Pakistani and being a foreigner he will have to apply for visa if he wants to come to Pakistan for appearing before the Commission in Memogate.”
Talking to the media at the inauguration of the new passport office in Jaranwala, he said that, “Interior ministry did not issue visa to anyone without permission and security clearance.”
“All visas are being issued after clearance from concerned security agencies. Media reports and allegations from some quarters and individuals that visas were issued to some American or others without security clearance and verification are totally wrong and mere allegations,” Malik asserted.
SMS voting in general elections
Regarding the general elections, he said, “Only those voters would be entitled for casting vote who have valid Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs) while a strategy has been devised to provide information to the voters about their polling stations, booths and other important guidelines for casting votes through Short Message Service (SMS) which will bring the Pakistan at par with those leading developed counties which have this facility during elections”.
Malik pointed out that in line with the direction of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, all-out efforts were being made to complete the new computerised voter list as per deadline give by the apex court by February 2012. In this connection, NADRA staff was working round the clock in multiple shifts.
He said that orders have also been issued to regularise all NADRA employees. However, the legal wing is reviewing this process and a new strategy would be announced very soon under its reports.
‘Not the right time to disclose conspiracies against country’
Talking about the conspiracies being hatched against the country, Malik said, “The time had still not come to disclose a number of realities in the interest of the nation and leading institutions of the country.”
He added that, however, all conspiracies hatched to destabilise the country will be disclosed and no one would be allowed to usurp the democracy.
Malik also spoke about how on one hand the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leadership claimed that it was against the intervention of any force destabilising the democratic system and would oppose all such moves but on the other hand was involved in such moves which was detrimental to democracy and undermined the image of the parliament.
“Mansoor Ijaz was not a Pakistani and being a foreigner he will have to apply for visa if he wants to come to Pakistan for appearing before the Commission in Memogate.”
Talking to the media at the inauguration of the new passport office in Jaranwala, he said that, “Interior ministry did not issue visa to anyone without permission and security clearance.”
“All visas are being issued after clearance from concerned security agencies. Media reports and allegations from some quarters and individuals that visas were issued to some American or others without security clearance and verification are totally wrong and mere allegations,” Malik asserted.
SMS voting in general elections
Regarding the general elections, he said, “Only those voters would be entitled for casting vote who have valid Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs) while a strategy has been devised to provide information to the voters about their polling stations, booths and other important guidelines for casting votes through Short Message Service (SMS) which will bring the Pakistan at par with those leading developed counties which have this facility during elections”.
Malik pointed out that in line with the direction of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, all-out efforts were being made to complete the new computerised voter list as per deadline give by the apex court by February 2012. In this connection, NADRA staff was working round the clock in multiple shifts.
He said that orders have also been issued to regularise all NADRA employees. However, the legal wing is reviewing this process and a new strategy would be announced very soon under its reports.
‘Not the right time to disclose conspiracies against country’
Talking about the conspiracies being hatched against the country, Malik said, “The time had still not come to disclose a number of realities in the interest of the nation and leading institutions of the country.”
He added that, however, all conspiracies hatched to destabilise the country will be disclosed and no one would be allowed to usurp the democracy.
Malik also spoke about how on one hand the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leadership claimed that it was against the intervention of any force destabilising the democratic system and would oppose all such moves but on the other hand was involved in such moves which was detrimental to democracy and undermined the image of the parliament.
