Pakistan Citizenship Act, 1951 — section 6

6. Citizenship by migration..—(1) The 1[Federal Government] may, upon his obtaining a certificate of domicile under this Act, register as a citizen of Pakistan by migration any person who 2 [after the commencement of this Act and before the first day of January, 1952, has migrated] to the territories now included in Pakistan from any territory in the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent outside those territories, with the intention of residing permanently in those territories: Provided that the 1[Federal Government] may, by general or special order, exempt any person or class of persons from obtaining a certificate of domicile required under this sub-section.

(2)Registration granted under the preceding sub-section shall include, besides the person himself, his wife, if any, unless his marriage with her has been dissolved, and any minor child of his dependent whether wholly or partially upon him. 7. Persons migrating from the territories of Pakistan. Notwithstanding anything in sections 3, 4 and 6, a person who has after the first day of March, 1947, migrated from the territories now included in Pakistan to the territories now included in India shall not be a citizen of Pakistan under the provisions of these sections: Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to a person who, after having so migrated to the territories now included in India has returned to the territories now included in Pakistan under a permit for resettlement or permanent return issued by or under the authority of any law for the time being in force. 8. Rights of citizenship of certain persons resident abroad. 1[(1)] The 1[Federal Government] may, upon application made to it in this behalf, register as a citizen of Pakistan any person who, or whose father or whose father’s father, was born in the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent and who is ordinarily resident in a country outside Pakistan at the commencement of this Act, if he has, unless exempted by the 1[Federal Government] in this behalf, obtained a certificate of domicile: Provided that a certificate of domicile shall not be required in the case of any such person who is out of Pakistan under the protection of a Pakistan passport, or in the case of any such person whose father or whose father’s father is at the commencement of this Act residing in Pakistan or becomes, before the aforesaid application is made, a citizen of Pakistan. 1 [(2) A subject of the State of Jammu and Kashmir who, being under the protection of a Pakistan passport, is resident in the United Kingdom or such other country as the Federal Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, specify in this behalf, shall, without prejudice to his rights and status as a subject of that State, be deemed to be, and always to have been, a citizen of Pakistan.] 9. Citizenship by naturalisation. The 1[Federal Government] may, upon an application made to it in that behalf by any person who has been granted a certificate of naturalisation under the Naturalisation Act, 1926 (VII of 1926), register that person as a citizen of Pakistan by naturalization: Provided that the 1[Federal Government] may register any person as a citizen of Pakistan without his having obtained a certificate of naturalisation as aforesaid.