Published on, Sept. 18 -- September 18, 2025 6:47 AM

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) was informed on Wednesday about the theft of thousands of passports from passport offices across the country. In a meeting of Subcommittee IV of the PAC, chaired by Tariq Fazal Chaudhry, Passports Director General Mustafa Qazi revealed that thousands of passports had been stolen from 25 passport offices across the country "in different years." "All passports in these cases were blocked," Qazi said. "They have not been reviewed, nor will they be." Audit authorities said in the meeting that 32,600 passports were stolen from passport offices in Abbottabad and elsewhere. "This is a very worrying matter," Chaudhry said. "Under the current circumstances, t...