Passports delay: TIP urges SC to take suo motu notice

Transparency International Pakistan has called upon the Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry to take suo motu action against the delay in passport deliveries. 

In a letter addressed to the chief justice of Pakistan, the TIP requested him to take notice of the “inordinate delay in providing passports by the passport office, interior ministry.” It also called upon action to be taken against the “delay and corruption”.

“Transparency International Pakistan is striving for across the board application of rule of law, which is the only way to stop corruption,” the letter stated.

TIP’s request was based on a news story published in Dawn.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 9^th, 2013.