ISLAMABAD: Director of the Federal Investigation Company’s (FIA) Built-in Border Administration System (IBMS), Mustafa Hameed Malik, has outlined the evolution of Pakistan’s border administration structure and shared particulars of a brand new e-immigration cellular utility designed to assist passengers skip lengthy queues and facilitate sooner boarding.
In a video shared on social media, Malik defined the core capabilities, operational mandate, and strategic significance of IBMS in strengthening immigration controls, bettering inter-agency coordination, and guaranteeing safe, technology-driven border governance.
He stated the FIA is within the course of of putting in digital gates (e-gates) at airports to allow fast, self-service border management. These automated programs will permit eligible vacationers to clear immigration by merely scanning their passports, bypassing conventional immigration counters.
“Passengers will have the ability to scan their passports on the e-gates. With none human interface, their knowledge might be entered routinely, eliminating lengthy queues. The whole immigration course of might be accomplished inside 10 seconds,” he stated.
Malik additionally revealed that an AI-based e-immigration cellular utility might be launched quickly to curb unlawful immigration. He stated the initiative displays the imaginative and prescient of DG FIA Riffat Mukhtar, who advocates using synthetic intelligence throughout all FIA programs.
Beneath the brand new system, vacationers will set up the cellular utility on their smartphones and enter their private and journey particulars themselves. The knowledge might be verified on the backend by means of FIA databases, together with nationwide id card and passport data.
After verification, machine studying algorithms might be utilized to routinely generate passenger profiles, enhancing threat evaluation and screening.
He stated vacationers can enter their flight quantity and ticket particulars into the app earlier than arriving on the airport. This can make sure that all passenger knowledge is already accessible within the IBMS, permitting vacationers to skip queues and proceed easily by means of immigration and boarding.
He additional stated the FIA Immigration Division’s Danger Evaluation Unit (RAU) generates profiles of high-risk people, also referred to as flight-risk passengers, who could try to depart the nation by means of unlawful means akin to human smuggling.
