Ex-Indian citizen’s Pak citizenship record claimed burnt in 2002 fire

[Naveed Yaseen]

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Committee on Interior was on Tuesday informed that a file containing the record of the grant of citizenship to an accused in a drug trafficking case was burnt during a fire in the Shaheed-e-Millat Secretariat in 2002. Interior Ministry officials told the committee that Syed Sarwat Hussain, a former Indian national accused of smuggling drugs to Saudi Arabia, was granted the Pakistani citizenship in 1991, after complete security clearance. tahir niaz

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