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This was decided on Friday when the high court chief justice, Mushir Alam, met police and Rangers officials to devise a security plan for judges in the city. After the attack on Justice Maqbool Baqar’s convoy that killed nine people, the security of the judges and other court employees has driven the officials to beef up security.

The deadline for biometric verification of mobile SIMs ends today (Sunday) whereas the SIMs which remain unverified till 12 midnight will be blocked, Dunya News reported.

In a statement issued in Islamabad, Chairman Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Ismail Shah has said deadline for biometric verification of SIMs will not be extended anymore.

The first phase of installations will be in all training institutes, police headquarters, Sindh Reserve Police offices and Rapid Response Force offices. The second phase of installations will be at police stations across the Pakistani province.

Sindh government could not introduce 'Benazir Muawinat Card' for Zakat beneficiaries of the province despite the passage of more than four months, Business Recorder has learnt on Tuesday.

On the directives of President Asif Ali Zaradri, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah had approved the scheme in July 2011, and directed the provincial Zakat and Ushr department to co-ordinate with National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) in this regard, sources said.

The issue was resolved through the Complaints Redressal System recently introduced by NADRA which engages information technology experts in all regional offices across the country, NADRA officials told The Express Tribune on Saturday.

The recommendations include introducing a global positioning satellite (GPS)-based biometric system (BMS) to ensure 100% attendance. The system, which has already been installed at the education department as part of a pilot project, will soon be introduced in schools.

“The operators have agreed to meet the deadline and the foolproof biometric system will be in place at their outlets by the end of next month,” a PTA spokesman said.

On Friday, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government requested the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to hold polls using biometrics as a pilot project only in UC Ghazi, Haripur. This was communicated in a letter issued by Secretary LG Hafizur Rehman.

Chairman NADRA Tariq Malik in a press release issued Today said NADRA is all-set to carry out fingerprint authentication through its Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) in a bid to assist Election Tribunals. The tribunals are established by Election Commission of Pakistan which will hear and decide election petitions in post-general election 2013 scenario, he added.

Interestingly, senior officials at the Sindh Chief Minister’s House and Governor’s House are habitual latecomers, however, no system is in place to check late comers or those leaving office early, sources said.

The implementation of the system was reviewed at a meeting held under the chairmanship of Chancellor and attended, among others, by Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Saiyid Nazir Ahmed, Faculty Dean Dr Najib Ahmed Siddiqui, Registrar Shah Mahmood Hussain Syed, Director Finance Munawar Husain and other concerned officials.

On the occasion a multi-media presentation was also given to the Chancellor and it was informed that this system will replace the manual card punching attendance system.

Starting from 1 June, 2012, residents of Yerevan, Gyumri and Vanadzor who want have such passports may do it. According to the police’s decision, the process of elimination of old passports will start on January 1, 2014.

Here in the small village of Ambalavayal, in southern India, in a large dim room beside the local school, about 30 villagers sit patiently on benches.

Young mothers in bright saris with babies on their shoulders. Old men with the dust of the fields on their clothes and coarse work-worn hands.

The last few years saw the government of Azerbaijan carry out considerable and effective work to ensure rapid economic development, improve the living standard and ensure people's social security, and remove bureaucratic barriers in public agencies. In this context, establishment of ASAN service, an innovative new agency aiming to make services more accessible for citizens, and application of other advanced services has been of critical importance. Introduction of a biometric passport is one of such significant steps.

However, Stepanov found it difficult to say what the cost of biometric passports will be, but he expressed confidence that the price would be lower than 350 UAH announced by the EDAPS Consortium.

Of 866,423 pupils enrolled using the technology, 31 per cent did not receive parental permission prior to the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012, the group has warned.

Big Brother Watch also estimate that, if the percentage of schools using the technology increases from 25 to 30, more than a million children will be fingerprinted.

It will therefore be necessary to for the EC to come out and address the issues and assure Ghanaians of peaceful and credible results for the elections in Ghana.

We do not have to take things for granted and wait till the last day for pandemonium to reign at the polling centers.

Government biometrics projects and approvals of digital ID technologies made up most of the top news stories on Biometric Update over the past week. National biometrics registration campaigns are yielding results in Ethiopia and Nigeria, a large U.S. contract has been won by Idemia Public Security and its partner, and Australia is limiting the number of companies that will be approved for its federal digital ID system, with IDverse and Mastercard among the likely beneficiaries. Yoti’s age estimation has not won a key approval from the U.S. government, yet, and sooner or later, UK’s borders are likely to need more biometric gear deployed. On the private sector side, NEC has been revealed as the facial recognition provider for a major sports initiative.

Though the use of mapping, city officials will be able to obtain details and the location of any hawker. According to city records, there are about 7,224 authorized hawkers operating in the city. But, the number of hawkers that actually operate in the streets numbers over 14,000. With that number, the civic staff finds it difficult to differentiate between legal and illegal hawkers. Biometrics is seen as a means for the city official to verify authorized hawkers and move quickly against those operating illegally.