A Rehman Malik Federal Interior Minister, chairing high level meeting here on Thursday, said that movement of foreigners would be regularised and any foreigner/ diplomat will be sent back to his station of duty if he was found without legal permit of visit to specific area.
The meeting was attended by representatives of PPOs, Home Secretaries of the provinces along with Secretary Interior and officials of the ministry. Addressing the meeting the Interior Minister said that Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been requested to re-circulate SOPs on the subject among the diplomatic community. A networking arrangement between NADRA, MoFA and Mol for regulating movement of the foreigners/diplomats will be established and likewise registration of vehicles/driving licenses of the foreigners will be brought under prescribed ambit, he said.
Activities of proscribed organisations should be monitored vigorously including setting up of community policing for intelligence gathering and no proscribed organisation will be allowed to undertake any social/political activity. Malik has said that Provincial Governments have been directed to strictly observe the activities of proscribed organisations and those individuals who are in violation will be put under Schedule IV of ATA.
Balochistan and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have been asked to send recommendations to allow travellers to Afghanistan only through biometrics facility, he added. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been requested to approach Afghan authorities to make biometrics facilities available on their side. The Committee has recommended extension of the Safe City project to all the Provincial Headquarters including Azad Jammu & Kashmir so as to enhance the security.-PR
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