Document #1223824
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
Neither a specimen copy of an arrest
warrant nor information on whether it is used consistently
throughout Pakistan could be found among the sources consulted by
the DIRB.
This Response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the DIRB within time constraints. This Response is not, and does
not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular
claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the list of
sources consulted in researching this Information Request.
Sources Contacted
Refugee Branch Asylum Division,
Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Ottawa.
Note on contacting Canadian diplomatic representatives serving
abroad:
The DIRB must go through the CIC's
Refugee Branch, Asylum Division in order to ask questions of
Canadian diplomatic representatives serving abroad. The procedures
for contacting Canadian missions will cause delays in responding to
Information Requests. Moreover, ability to obtain information is
subject to Canadian missions' resource limitations.
Two oral sources contacted did not
provide information on the requested subject.
Note on oral sources:
Oral sources are usually contacted when
documentary sources have been exhausted. However, oral sources must
agree to be quoted in a publicly available Response to Information
Request. If they refuse, the Response will read "no information
currently available." Contacting oral sources is also subject to
time constraints; for example, there are periods of the year when
academics are unavailable.