Islamabad: Some 83,000 arms licences have been issued since February 2008 out of 92,542 applications submitted with the Federal Interior Ministry for non-prohibited bore (NPB).
An official of the Ministry said that no licence application is pending with the Ministry. He added that National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has developed a highly secured arms licence management system for issuance of computerized licences. He said that computerized arms licence card is a legal identity document, having highly secured material being used in current computerized national identity card.
Teslin cards are used for issuance of computerized arm licence having features of holographic lamination, multi layered, high luminosity/resolution pixels, colour shifting/image animation, guilloche/fine line patterns, secure paper had 2d, encrypted barcode, pre-printed unique serial number, embedded NADRA strip, watermark, digitally readable, he said.
He said the system will provide transparent and authenticated issuance of arm licence to applicants and remove chance of fake arm licences.
He said the card is printed on a chemical substrate which is the same as used in the production and preparation of the current Computerized Pakistan National ID Card.
He said weapons for which licences are permissible have been categorized as Non Prohibited Bore (NPB) & Prohibited Bore (PB) for which computerized arms licence will be issued within 15 days of receiving the demand note from the applicant. The computerized Arms License will be valid for a period of 5 year, he added.
The demand note, a secured paper with multiple security features is being issued to the applicant four days after receiving the duly filled application which is followed by verification of his/her CNIC and other quality control checks.
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