Peshawar High Court (PHC) has issued a message to the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) and sought a response within 14 days in a written petition that challenged the blockage of an entire family’s computer national identity card (CNIC) and refusal to issue Form-B for their children.

A bench consisting of Justice Ejaz Anwar and Justice Waqar Ahmad heard the petition filed by Taj Bibi and her family.

Represents the petitions, lawyer Malik Shehbaz Khan informed the court that Taj Bibi and her four children are Pakistani citizens.

He explained that when her son, Muhammad Ullah, applied for a CNIC, he was told that his father Sher Rehman’s Cnic had been blocked, preventing the issuance of his identity card.

Later, Sher Rehman’s CNIC was re -enabled and Muhammad Ullah received her CNIC in 2018. But when Taj Bibi recently applied for the renewal of her CNIC, she was informed that not only her husband Sher Rehman’s CNIC but the whole family’s CNICs had been blocked.