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Ties to Pakistan in decided clearance cases

What the decided public record shows for cases in which ties to Pakistan were alleged. Ties to any country are not themselves disqualifying, and every case turns on its own facts. This is decided history, not a prediction, and it says nothing about any nationality or community.

Decided cases

184

hearing-level decisions naming this country in the text

Granted

52%

95 granted · 89 denied or revoked

Ties living in the United States

at least 38

decisions stating expressly that the relative or contact lives in the United States, so this is a floor

The ties these cases involved

The kinds of relationship identified on Pakistan allegations in these cases. A case can involve several, and the bars count cases rather than outcomes, so they carry no colour.
Sibling in foreign country105 cases
Parent in foreign country87 cases
In law in foreign country70 cases
Unspecified foreign relationship59 cases
Extended family in foreign country40 cases
Spouse dual or foreign citizen33 cases
Foreign real estate27 cases

Circumstances credited in granted cases

Circumstances the judge expressly credited among granted Pakistan cases where that detail was extracted. Extraction covers a subset of the record, so these are raw counts and not rates.
  • deep U.S. ties · credited in 27 granted cases

Recent decided examples

  • ISCR Case No. 22-01391Granted2026

    The case involves an applicant seeking security clearance who faced allegations under Guideline B for foreign influence and Guideline H for drug involvement. The applicant admitted to the allegations …

  • ISCR Case No. 23-01080Granted2024

    The applicant in this case was a 54-year-old employee of a defense contractor who sought a security clearance under Guideline B (Foreign Influence). The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency…

  • ISCR Case No. 25-01299Denied2026

    The applicant's eligibility for access to classified information was denied due to unmitigated foreign influence security concerns. Despite admitting to all allegations, including maintaining foreign …

  • ISCR Case No. 24-01631Denied2026

    The applicant in this case sought a security clearance and faced allegations under Guideline B (foreign influence) and Guideline E (personal conduct). The Statement of Reasons (SOR) indicated concerns…

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Other countries in the record

How these numbers are measured

Scope: decided hearing-level cases whose Guideline B allegations name this country. The country field is free text in the source, so the variants observed in the record are mapped onto one canonical name and nothing is guessed; records naming several countries in one field are excluded rather than split. A case naming two countries counts once under each. Counts of country risk and of ties living in the United States are counted only where the decision says so expressly, so both are floors. Pages exist only for countries with at least 25 decided cases.

Reading the statistics

  • Granted = access granted or continued; Denied = denied or revoked.
  • Grant rate = granted ÷ (granted + denied).
  • † marks figures based on fewer than 20 cases, too few to be reliable.
  • Hovering any rate shows its statistical range (a 95% confidence interval).
  • Figures are descriptive counts over decided, public DOHA ISCR decisions, never predictions or assessments of any pending case.

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