High failure rate for Pakistan’s biometric voting pilot
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) recently shared the results of its first pilot program in which it experimented with…
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Pakistan to trial biometrics in upcoming by-election
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) announced it will conduct its first pilot project using biometric machines at 30 polling…
Pakistan’s biometric verification of SIMs leads to 16% decline in teledensity
Following the Pakistan government’s Biometric Verification System (BVS) drive, cellular companies have seen a loss of 25.375 million subscribers, while…
Integrated Biometrics provides mobile fingerprint scanner to Pakistan education department
Integrated Biometrics, LLC announced that the Pakistan Education Department has deployed its Columbo fingerprint scanner to verify the identity of…
Pakistan police to digitalize criminal records for centralized biometric database
Pakistan’s Inspector General of Police (ICP) ordered the completion of the digitalization of criminal records at all police stations to…
Pakistan government verifies 53 million SIMs via biometric system
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority chairman Syed Ismail Shah recently confirmed that more than 53 million mobile phone SIMs have been verified…
Pakistan begins investigation of 103 million unverified SIMs
A joint group formed by the Pakistan Ministry of Interior began investigating over 100 million subscriber identification modules that were…
Pakistan police plan to install biometric system to guard arsenal
Police in Balochistan, Pakistan are planning on installing a biometrics system at its arsenal depot to more effectively monitor the…
Most popular biometrics news updates for the week ending November 30
Here’s a recap of most popular biometrics industry news that appeared on BiometricUpdate.com this past week. Biometrics news in review:…
ICCI urges Saudi government to stop biometrics collection for Umrah visa applicants
Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry acting president Shakeel Munir has requested the help of the government of Pakistani to…
