People who find themselves marked deceased while still alive can seek NADRA record correction by visiting a NADRA registration centre and completing biometric verification, according to NADRA spokesperson Syed Shabahat Ali. He said that once verification succeeds, the authority can restore the person’s identity record, and that NADRA does not ask the affected individual for extra documents for this particular step.
Ali raised the issue while discussing how a living person can be wrongly entered as dead and what follows for official identity. He cited an alleged case in which a woman had her living husband declared dead in official records through fraudulent means, obtained a passport for their child by presenting the child as an orphan, and later took the child abroad.
How restoration works at a NADRA centre
Ali said the practical path for NADRA record correction in these cases is straightforward: the person goes to a registration centre, undergoes biometric verification, and NADRA then takes the action needed to reactivate the record. He stressed that people wrongly declared deceased do not necessarily have to approach the courts simply to have their NADRA records restored.
Filing a police case over a fraudulent death registration, he clarified, is not NADRA’s responsibility. The affected person or another relevant party would have to start legal proceedings if they want that route pursued.
How a false death entry can appear
Such situations, Ali said, can arise when a death is wrongly registered at a Union Council on the basis of incorrect information or a fraudulent death certificate. Union Councils are not subordinate to NADRA, though the authority provides them with computerised software to maintain registration records.
Responsibility for entering death registrations into the system rests with Union Council staff, while family members are responsible for reporting a relative’s death. Ali said a death cannot be registered on a verbal statement alone: the process requires relevant forms, identity card details, witnesses’ signatures, and other supporting information.
Courts, documents, and what NADRA can share
If a court asks for information, NADRA can provide the documents submitted to the Union Council for the death registration, along with relevant information held in its own database. That support sits alongside—not instead of—the centre-based biometric path for restoring a living person’s record.
For ordinary readers trying to understand how to fix a NADRA record after a wrongful death marking, the spokesperson’s guidance points first to biometrics at a NADRA centre rather than to paperwork piles or an automatic court battle over the database entry itself.
Aasan alfaaz mein
Agar aap zinda hain lekin NADRA record mein marne ka indraaj ho gaya ho, to NADRA centre ja kar biometric verification karwaen. Kamyab verification ke baad record wapas theek kiya ja sakta hai, aur is kaam ke liye zyada papers ki zaroorat nahi batayi gayi. Police case alag mamla hai—woh NADRA nahi, mutasir shakhs ya related party karegi. Rozmarra ke liye pehla qadam centre par biometric se record restore karwana hai.
