Keywords
- Initiative will save passengers from waiting in long queues
- Immediate funds be provided to improve FIA’s IT infrastructure: interior minister
- Urgent upgradation of FIA Headquarters building ordered
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has developed an AI-based application to facilitate immigration and eliminate human smuggling.
The FIA’s pilot project is set to be launched at the Islamabad International Airport.
According to a statement, the App was developed on the instructions of Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, who visited FIA Headquarters in Islamabad on Friday and chaired a high-level meeting.
Modernising FIA
The meeting reviewed progress on the decisions taken in the previous session regarding modernising FIA, it said.
Mohsin Naqvi was briefed on the AI-based app designed to simplify immigration procedures and counter human trafficking.
Mohsin Naqvi appreciated the app and termed it the need of the hour.
Dual benefits
He said that this initiative would not only help stop human trafficking but also save passengers from waiting in long queues.
He directed that immediate funds be provided to improve FIA’s IT infrastructure. The interior minister also ordered the urgent upgradation of the FIA Headquarters building.
He instructed CDA to hand over the newly allotted land for the FIA Academy to the agency without any delay.
In view of staff shortages, the interior minister directed that recruitment against all approved vacant posts be started immediately.
He assured that all necessary resources will be provided, but stressed that, along with resources, performance must also be delivered.
FIA Director General Raja Riffat Mukhtar briefed the Interior Minister that work on the necessary amendments in the FIA Act has been completed.
Digitisation
He further apprised that the process of digitisation is being pursued on a priority basis.
The organisation has shifted to an e-office system within a short time, and all FIA notices will now be issued with QR codes.
