National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) was established as
National Database Organization (NDO), an attached department under the
Ministry of Interior, Government of Pakistan in 1998. On 10 March, 2000, NDO
& Directorate General of Registration (DGR) merged to form NADRA; an
independent corporate body with requisite autonomy to operate
independently and facilitate good governance. National Database &
Registration Authority (NADRA) has gained international recognition for its
success in providing solutions for identification, e-governance and secure
documents that deliver multi-pronged goals of mitigating identity theft; safe-
guarding the interests of our clients and facilitating the public.

NADRA set out on the journey of Civil Registration of all Pakistanis in March
2000 and in a short span of time NADRA’s team indigenously created a state of
the art centralized Data Warehouse, Network Infrastructure and