Keeping check: FATA Secretariat seeks FIA’s help to trace employees

PESHAWAR:

The FATA Secretariat has sought the help of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to trace its employees who are abroad.

Following directives of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Governor Mehtab Ahmad Khan, the FATA Secretariat has taken measures to introduce new means and technology to keep a check on its employees and their performances at assigned places.

The measures include a verification process wherein digital pictures and details on the national identity card (NIC) would be matched with those on quittance rolls. After employing the verification methods, two types of missing employees have been found: those who have been absent from their duties but are present in the assigned countries and those who are doing other jobs abroad.

In order to trace such employees, it was decided to approach the immigration wing of the FIA. This would help in finding out the date and place of their departures as well as their arrival back to the country based on their computerised NICs.

These measures will finalise a mechanism with the FIA to check the immigration data of the FATA Secretariat’s employees on a half-yearly basis and to trace those who leave the country without permission. Once found, disciplinary action would be initiated against them.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 26^th, 2014.