ISLAMABAD: Pakistan authorities have initiated prison proceedings towards six officers who allegedly accessed the non-public data of Military chief Normal Asim Munir‘s household, a media report stated on Saturday.
The Nationwide Database and Registration Authority (Nadra), the highest nationwide physique tasked with issuing nationwide identification playing cards and passports by storing knowledge of residents, took motion towards its staff following probes.
An knowledgeable supply instructed the Daybreak newspaper that the weather on whose behest the breach occurred have been additionally being acted towards and as many as six Nadra staff have been dismissed from service for illegally accessing the Chief of Military Workers’s household’s document, following 4 separate inquiries.
The inquiries have been ordered by Nadra Chairman Tariq Malik on December 23, 2022, and March 2, 2023.
A joint probe performed by Nadra and a delicate safety company in December final yr found that Farooq Ahmed, a junior govt worker engaged on a mission of the Benazir Revenue Assist Programme, was the primary particular person to have unlawfully accessed the info in query.
The high-powered inquiry committee on the path of the incumbent chairman expanded the scope of the investigation by technically analysing logins, person IDs, system logs and IP addresses that have been intact, reflecting the power of the authority’s database.
This led to the identification of a complete of 10 staff who illegally accessed information of the Military chief’s household. After a fact-finding inquiry, the suspects have been cross-examined and an in depth probe was launched.
Therefore, a chargesheet into the imputations of accessing the COAS household’s knowledge unauthorisedly and illegally was subsequently issued to the accused staff on January 6. Because of this, in two inquiries the committee discovered six officers accountable.
He stated a committee imposed a serious penalty of termination from service underneath the Authorities Servants (Effectivity & Self-discipline) Guidelines 1973 on these six staff, based on the newspaper.
Individually, in a message to the staff, Malik whereas speaking about different points additionally alluded to the incident involving knowledge of COAS’ household and stated six officers down from the extent of a junior govt to director have been faraway from service and prison instances towards them have been being filed.
He urged the staff to bear in mind the elemental precept that be it a typical citizen or an necessary workplace holder, the secrecy and safety of their knowledge needs to be the foremost precedence, the report stated.
The problem of entry to the small print of the relations of the military chief surfaced within the media after his appointment in November final yr, however it’s for the primary time that particulars have emerged concerning the prison exercise and the motion taken by the authorities.
The precise goal of the entry to the info will not be recognized but. Munir was serving as a Lieutenant Normal on the time of the alleged knowledge breach, in line to be appointed to the highest put up.
The Daybreak newspaper earlier had stated, two Pakistani journalists claimed in a vlog that in October 2022, private knowledge and journey information of Gen. Munir’s household have been allegedly accessed by Nadra officers in a bid to cease his appointment because the Chief of Military Workers.
Munir, a former spymaster, assumed cost because the nation’s new Military chief late final yr and have become the seventeenth Chief of the Military Workers. He changed Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, who retired after two consecutive three-year phrases.
The Nationwide Database and Registration Authority (Nadra), the highest nationwide physique tasked with issuing nationwide identification playing cards and passports by storing knowledge of residents, took motion towards its staff following probes.
An knowledgeable supply instructed the Daybreak newspaper that the weather on whose behest the breach occurred have been additionally being acted towards and as many as six Nadra staff have been dismissed from service for illegally accessing the Chief of Military Workers’s household’s document, following 4 separate inquiries.
The inquiries have been ordered by Nadra Chairman Tariq Malik on December 23, 2022, and March 2, 2023.
A joint probe performed by Nadra and a delicate safety company in December final yr found that Farooq Ahmed, a junior govt worker engaged on a mission of the Benazir Revenue Assist Programme, was the primary particular person to have unlawfully accessed the info in query.
The high-powered inquiry committee on the path of the incumbent chairman expanded the scope of the investigation by technically analysing logins, person IDs, system logs and IP addresses that have been intact, reflecting the power of the authority’s database.
This led to the identification of a complete of 10 staff who illegally accessed information of the Military chief’s household. After a fact-finding inquiry, the suspects have been cross-examined and an in depth probe was launched.
Therefore, a chargesheet into the imputations of accessing the COAS household’s knowledge unauthorisedly and illegally was subsequently issued to the accused staff on January 6. Because of this, in two inquiries the committee discovered six officers accountable.
He stated a committee imposed a serious penalty of termination from service underneath the Authorities Servants (Effectivity & Self-discipline) Guidelines 1973 on these six staff, based on the newspaper.
Individually, in a message to the staff, Malik whereas speaking about different points additionally alluded to the incident involving knowledge of COAS’ household and stated six officers down from the extent of a junior govt to director have been faraway from service and prison instances towards them have been being filed.
He urged the staff to bear in mind the elemental precept that be it a typical citizen or an necessary workplace holder, the secrecy and safety of their knowledge needs to be the foremost precedence, the report stated.
The problem of entry to the small print of the relations of the military chief surfaced within the media after his appointment in November final yr, however it’s for the primary time that particulars have emerged concerning the prison exercise and the motion taken by the authorities.
The precise goal of the entry to the info will not be recognized but. Munir was serving as a Lieutenant Normal on the time of the alleged knowledge breach, in line to be appointed to the highest put up.
The Daybreak newspaper earlier had stated, two Pakistani journalists claimed in a vlog that in October 2022, private knowledge and journey information of Gen. Munir’s household have been allegedly accessed by Nadra officers in a bid to cease his appointment because the Chief of Military Workers.
Munir, a former spymaster, assumed cost because the nation’s new Military chief late final yr and have become the seventeenth Chief of the Military Workers. He changed Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, who retired after two consecutive three-year phrases.
