Passport office Trip

I was dreading going to renew my passport this whole week. My passport is about to expire so I thought I better get it renewed in case I need it in an emergency, but my previous experience when I went with a friend to have his passport renewed was enough to make me put it off.
Today I finally decided that enough was enough and went to Awami Markaz for the renewal and surprisingly it took me less than half an hour to get everything done, and I didn’t even had to hire an agent. The NADRA system is efficient and has finally managed to get rid of the agent culture that used to be part and parcel of getting anything done at passport office before. Now you can do everything on your own and don’t even need any documents or photographs, just keep your original NIC and passport and you’ll be done in a jiffy. Now if they can do the same things with the driving license office, it’ll be wonderful as my license will expire next year and I will have to go thru that hassle again. Maybe till then the system would’ve changed. Who knows.