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.96 percent adults registered in Pakistan: NADRA Dawn (newspaper), Published 18 August 2012, Retrieved 22 February 2019

 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
 NADRA ONLINE CARD UK

Category:Identification documents
Category:Politics of Pakistan
Category:2000s establishments in Pakistan