Nadra to issue smart cards usable as cash cards

Updated at: 1255 PST, Saturday, April 17, 2010
KARACHI: Chairman of National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) Ali Arshad Hakeem said the Authority would issue Smart Card, which would use the Computerized National Identity Card as ATM and Debit cards, Geo News reported Saturday.

Addressing the inaugural session of the Pakistan Branchless Banking Conference at SBP Learning Resource Centre, Hakeem said the Authority is working on using CNIC as ATM and debit card.

He said the idea of smart card has been derived from giving the financial assistance to terror-hit affectees of Malakand.

Ali Arshad Hakeem said a special chip would be added to the CNIC which would make it usable as cash card.