CHATURANGA PRADEEP SAMARAWICKRAMA 
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Lankan woman awaiting Pak citizenship for 9 long years
A woman of Sri Lankan origin, who happily married a Pakistani national nine years ago, Monday asked the prime minister and interior minister to help her get the citizenship of Pakistan.
Speaking at a press conference at the Charsadda Press Club, Khadeja Alam said she married Khursheed Alam in Saudi Arabia in 2005 and moved to Pakistan after marriage.She said she submitted an application to the Citizenship Secretariat in Islamabad in 2005 along with the relevant documents. “I was told that I would be granted the Pakistani nationality within five years, but the officials are now using delaying tactics,” she complained.
Khadeja Alam, who embraced Islam before her marriage, said she had been told to file a fresh application. She said she had to get her visa extended every year, which caused financial problems for the couple as her husband, a teacher by profession, received a meagre salary.
Flanked by her two children and husband, she said she couldn’t get her kids registered with the National Database and Registration Authority as she didn’t have Pakistani nationality. “I even cannot get my children enrolled in school, which is affecting their future,” she lamented. (Source: The News)
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