Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has decided to introduce biometric machines at the Islamabad airport to detect fake passports, a media report said on Saturday.
An FIA immigration official said that biometric machines will be integrated to enable its immigration staff detect “the most sophisticated fake passports”, Dawn reported.
That would improve the working of the FIA staff at the passport control desk at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport, the official said.
The biometric system verifies the identity of a person on the basis of his or her fingerprints.
The decision of introducing these machines followed after an incident in October when 10 Afghan nationals took a flight to London and were transferred after the scandal of their fraudulent travel documents unfolded after their landing at Heathrow airport.