Pakistan President Arif Alvi has instructed officials of the foreign and interior ministries to resolve the issue of the nationality of a "stateless" five-month old baby girl who is fighting a life-threatening heart disease in the UAE, his office said on Wednesday.
The story of the "stateless" baby was published last month in a Gulf newspaper, which reported that the father of the girl is a British national while her mother is a Pakistani national and the baby herself was born in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE.
The baby is not considered a citizen by either of her parent's home countries, and hence unable to get a passport.
The father approached the Pakistani Embassy in the UAE to get a passport for her daughter as her mother is a citizen of Pakistan. However, the embassy told him that only father of a child can apply for a passport according to the Pakistani laws.
Taking notice of the story, President Alvi "instructed the Foreign Office to look into the matter in order to resolve the issue."
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