{"id":29846,"date":"2017-11-08T22:44:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T17:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=29846"},"modified":"2017-11-08T22:44:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T17:44:59","slug":"pilgrims-move-sc-against-verification-by-indian-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=29846","title":{"rendered":"Pilgrims move SC against verification by Indian firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad, Nov. 8 (TNS):<\/strong> Pakistan\u2019s Haj and Umrah pilgrims moved the top court on Wednesday against Saudi Arabia hiring the services of an Indian firm to carry out their\u00a0biometric verification.<\/p>\n<p>Nadeem A Shaikh of the\u00a0National Interfaith Harmony Council of Pakistan (NIHCP) filed an application with the Supreme Court on behalf of the pilgrims.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia has signed a contract with Etimad, an Indian firm operating in Dubai, for pilgrims\u2019 biometric verification.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPakistani citizens\u2019 data in the hands of an Indian company is a matter of national security,\u201d the application reads.<\/p>\n<p>The applicant implored Chief Justice of Pakistan Saqib Nisar to take suo moto notice of the issue and also the government to play its role.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf biometric verification is extremely important, the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) should carry it out for the Saudi authorities,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The document also stated that Iran, India, Egypt and Bangladesh have refused to abide by Saudi Arabia\u2019s condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Nov. 8 (TNS): Pakistan\u2019s Haj and Umrah pilgrims moved the top court on Wednesday against Saudi Arabia hiring the services of an Indian firm to carry out their\u00a0biometric verification. Nadeem A Shaikh of the\u00a0National Interfaith Harmony Council of Pakistan (NIHCP) filed an application with the Supreme Court on behalf of the pilgrims. Saudi Arabia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29848,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29846\/revisions\/29848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}