The National Database & Registration Authority has exhorted citizens to cancel the national identity cards of their deceased family members.

“Despite the registration of seven million deaths in union councils, their ID cards have not been canceled in NADRA’s records. Whereas canceling the ID cards of deceased individuals with NADRA is a legal requirement,” NADRA said in a statement.

A deceased person’s son, daughter, spouse, or parents can cancel their ID card at any NADRA center “free of charge.”

It added that NADRA has been sending SMS notifications to citizens using the available mobile numbers for awareness.

“Failure to cancel a deceased person’s ID card may cause difficulties for their son, daughter, spouse, or parents in processing their own identity documents with NADRA,” it said, “if the death registration is incorrect, get the record corrected by the relevant union council secretary.”