Daily Times

Sir: It was very heartening to learn through the media that the interior minister has announced that all the manual arms licences will be computerised by December 31, 2015. I am a retired government officer residing in Karachi and got an arms licence for a non-prohibited bore weapon while I was in service and posted to the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). Ever since my retirement from government service in 1987, I am settled in Karachi and I cannot go to KP to get my manual arms licence converted to a computerised one. I therefore request the concerned authorities to make arrangements for the issuance of computerised licences in Karachi. There should be some arrangement for all those residing in different provinces who are facing the same problem.

Around one and a half years ago when the Sindh government announced the conversion of manual licences to computerised, I went to the concerned office located at the D C South office in Karachi. After standing in a long queue for nearly one and a half hours, I was informed that my licence had been issued in KP and it cannot be computerised. Now in this age of information technology, it is not difficult to scrutinise/verify a manual arms licence and issue a computerised one at a different location.
M ASIF
Karachi