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A lot of conversation about having father's/husband's name in CNICs of women. Its often considered as degrading and being treated like a property. Women are not to be dependent on a man and its an unquestionably right demand. CNIC is a different ballgame though. Read 
Let's start off with Nikah Namas - erstwhile a paper, completely off-the-digital record managed by Union Councils who managed birth, divorce and death matters as well. However, its very easy to forge these documents and get away with them in absence of Nadra database (cont)
In 2017, I covered the case of an underage Christian girl (as per B-Form). She was married to a Muslim neighbour man far older than her after staying missing from home. Her Nikah Nama mentioned her age to be above 18. Marriage was solemnized. (cont)
This wouldn't have been possible in theory if the marriage registrar was only a centralised government department instead of dispersed, decentralised marriage registrars. That's where Nadra steps in and makes it difficult to forge Birth, Marriage, Divorce and Death records (cont)
Consider this, as my brilliant colleague @HumairaKanwal outlined in her 2018 story, when a resident of France married a Pakistani woman, didn't show himself married in ID documents and Nadra didn't accept her Nikah Nama to be basis for making her children's B-Forms (cont)
Result? Children without identity. Read ( http://bbc.com/urdu/pakistan-45715982). Its only now that these civil registration information from UC goes to Nadra's system. When it didn't happen, people could have multiple domiciles, even from districts they didn't belong to (cont)
Another pitfall of it was a man could previously be married to more than one (potentially more than 4 even) and lie to her prospective wife about his current marriage status. A woman could have faced hard time in proving she was wife of said person if he denies sustenance (cont)
Or doesn't accept her as wife or the kids as his own. Having a husband's name in Nadra's database and subsequently on cards is a safeguard for women from the potential malice of a man (plenty of them around us). He can't get away with denying her inheritance/sustenance (cont)
The point here is not that first father and then husband OWNS a woman. They DON'T. But if the registration system overlooks it, we will actually be just having same problems when we had manual documentation. There's no point in having a computerized system then. (Cont)
There are shortfalls still in Nadra's system and the society in general. These include but not limited to further strengthening of laws, sensitisation of registering and law enforcement officials, and of judicial system. It's not a perfect but an evolving system (cont)
One of the biggest issues (which I highlighted during General Elections 2018 too: http://dawn.com/news/1395642 ) is that countless women still don't have any ID at all. They are Pakistanis by all criteria but are faceless persons because they aren't in Nadra's system (cont)
which leads them with no right to vote, communication (sim card), finances (bank account), formal employment, etc. These are just few of the ways how women are oppressed and continue to be oppressed in this country. In 2018, that number of women was 12m as per ECP (cont)
When we have this level of disenfranchisement of women then having husbands and fathers digitally certified as a woman's relative seems very much necessary. Debate about name is smaller when compared to deep-rooted problems of patriarchal system that is inherently anti-women.
