Pak amendment on dual nationality to clip wings of 20,000 officers: Report

Lawmakers are considering an amendment to the civil service rules that will bar top government officials from holding dual nationality

Pakistani lawmakers are mulling a proposed amendment to the civil service rules that will bar top government officials from holding dual nationality and could affect over 20,000 bureaucrats, according to a media report on Friday.

The Pakistan Citizenship Act 1951 explicitly allows a citizen of Pakistan to hold dual nationality. Pakistanis with dual citizenship are currently forbidden to run for public office, sit in parliament, contest elections or join the army.

In a ruling in September 2012, the country's top court disqualified eleven lawmakers for failing to disclose their dual nationalities upon taking office.

The amendment to the civil service rules came up