AT least the government is not trying to cover it up. That, perhaps, is the only silver lining in the alarming scandal that has just come to light. We know now, straight from the horse’s mouth, that the fingerprint-based biometric verification system — supposedly built to protect citizens’ digital identities — has been thoroughly compromised. The minister of state for interior now casually dismisses it as “outdated”. Scammers have reportedly enjoyed access to supposedly secure locations, such as airports, driving licence centres, passport offices, and possibly even Nadra, to physically steal citizens’ fingerprint data. And the crisis........

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