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Citizens across Pakistan can now report cybercrimes through Police Emergency Helpline 15 following the integration of police emergency call systems with the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA). NCCIA Director General Syed Ali Nasir Rizvi said emergency helpline systems operating across provinces and major cities have been connected with the agency to make cyberc...

Pakistan plans to discontinue the issuance of machine-readable passports (MRPs) within a month and transition fully to electronic passports (e-passports), the federal government has informed the National Assembly. The Ministry of Interior said that once the transition is complete, passport offices across Pakistan and Pakistani missions abroad will issue only e-passports. Howe...

The Punjab government has introduced mandatory biometric verification for the registration and issuance of birth, death, and marriage certificates at union councils to prevent fraud and improve transparency in public services. Punjab Local Government Minister Zeeshan Rafique inaugurated the new Civil Registration Management System (CRMS), developed jointly by the Punjab Local...

The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has established 43 citizen facilitation centres across 11 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) under a $46 million World Bank-funded project aimed at improving public service delivery. According to an official document available with Wealth Pakistan, the initiative is part of the K-P Citizen-Centred Service Delivery Pr...

Pakistan is in talks to adopt Lark, a workplace messaging and productivity platform developed by ByteDance, the Chinese technology company that owns TikTok. Exclusive to TechJuice, the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication held a meeting to discuss the platform’s adoption, with most of the arrangements reportedly nearing finalization. The development could ...