Driving permits: Only residents to get capital licences
Applicants from adjoining districts have expressed resentment over the move
Applicants from adjoining districts have expressed resentment over the move. PHOTO: EXPRESS
ISLAMABAD:
The Islamabad Traffic Police have decided to issue driving licences to only those applicants who have addresses in Islamabad on their Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs).
SSP (Traffic) Malik Matloob said that the step has been taken to discourage illegal agents and touts who help non-residents get licences on their own CNICs after taking money from them.
“The basic purpose of the drive is to discourage such agents who used to make 15 to 20 affidavits on their CNICs to help outsiders get licences,” the police officer said, adding that, “from now onwards, it has been made mandatory for applicants to have permanent Islamabad addresses on their CNICs”.
The SSP said that he has directed his staff not to entertain applicants of non-residents.
A driving license is issued by the office of SSP (Traffic). Initially, a person has to obtain a learner permit, issued by the same authority, and complete mandatory six-week training before he or she may apply for a driving licence.
The person has to appear for a test before he or she is issued a regular licence.
It has now been decided that a person not having a permanent address in Islamabad on his/her CNIC will neither be issued a learner permit nor a driving licence.
A large number of applicants from adjoining districts have expressed strong resentment over the move, calling it discrimination.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 2nd, 2016.
The Islamabad Traffic Police have decided to issue driving licences to only those applicants who have addresses in Islamabad on their Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs).
SSP (Traffic) Malik Matloob said that the step has been taken to discourage illegal agents and touts who help non-residents get licences on their own CNICs after taking money from them.
“The basic purpose of the drive is to discourage such agents who used to make 15 to 20 affidavits on their CNICs to help outsiders get licences,” the police officer said, adding that, “from now onwards, it has been made mandatory for applicants to have permanent Islamabad addresses on their CNICs”.
The SSP said that he has directed his staff not to entertain applicants of non-residents.
A driving license is issued by the office of SSP (Traffic). Initially, a person has to obtain a learner permit, issued by the same authority, and complete mandatory six-week training before he or she may apply for a driving licence.
The person has to appear for a test before he or she is issued a regular licence.
It has now been decided that a person not having a permanent address in Islamabad on his/her CNIC will neither be issued a learner permit nor a driving licence.
A large number of applicants from adjoining districts have expressed strong resentment over the move, calling it discrimination.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 2nd, 2016.