Pakistan Citizenship Act, 1951 — section 8

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.]