Pakistan, April 24 -- Around 12,000 Afghan nationals traveled to Saudi Arabia using fake Pakistani passports, according to a briefing in a parliamentary committee. DG Passport Mustafa Jamal Qazi said they discarded the passports after arriving in Saudi Arabia. These documents were mostly issued from Gujrat, Gujranwala, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Officials confirmed that all the fake passports have now been cancelled. Saudi authorities deported the individuals back to Afghanistan. This discovery raised serious concerns about loopholes in Pakistan's documentation system. The misuse of identity documents has also impacted Pakistan's credibility abroad.

During the briefing, a NADRA official revealed that the system was breached in 2023, which ...