PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government authorized the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and a provincial committee to conduct a high-level investigation into the fake international driving license scandal, which embarrassed Pakistan due to complaints from other countries, sources told News on Tuesday.
The controversy surfaced when Pakistani embassies abroad contacted with the KP Transport Department to confirm driving licenses granted to Pakistanis living abroad, but the department’s database did not contain their records.
Both the authorities in Hong Kong and the Pakistan High Commission in Canberra, Australia, had requested verification through letters of the driving licenses that had been awarded to numerous Pakistanis living abroad even during their absence in the previous few years.The embassy representatives were taken aback by the fact that so many individuals from different provinces were receiving licenses from Peshawar, Nowshera, and several other KP cities, while not receiving them from the relevant districts.
According to the people with knowledge of the issue, “the KP chief secretary has given approval to carry out investigation [into the driving licence saga] by the FIA and a provincial committee.”
