The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) will formally deploy its Integrated Border Management System (IBMS) at Lahore’s Allama Iqbal International Airport today (August 25).
Talking to the media on Friday, NADRA spokesperson Naz Shoaib said the indigenously developed immigration processing system was successfully launched in February, 2011, and is currently operational at Benazir Bhutto International Airport, Islamabad, Jinnah International Airport, Karachi, Bacha Khan International Airport, Peshawar and the Torkham border crossing.
She added that the system was developed in collaboration with the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to replace the US-developed Personal Identification, Secure Comparison and Evaluation System (PISCES) at 26 entry-exit points across Pakistan.
According to the spokesperson, the IBMS is tailored specifically to immigration laws in Pakistan. This will help prevent illegal entry, use of counterfeit documents, human smuggling, and other forms of travel fraud.
Naz said the system is designed to document the entire immigration process, from Visa issuance to departure and arrival.
She said with the induction of this system, a centralised traveller information databank is available to all stakeholders.
The system provides access to machine readable passports and NADRA databases to authenticate travel documents.
The spokesperson said 90 per cent of all immigration processing is already being processed under the IBMS.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 25th, 2012.
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