The Kurdish government in Erbil has said that its military forces will undergo biometric registration.According to information obtained by the newspaper Rudaw, Kurdish President Masoud Barzani has ordered the Peshmerga forces, especially the ministry's 70 and 80 units, to register under a biometric salary system also in use by civil servants. The Peshmerga Ministry's Chief of Staff, Jabar Yawar, told Rudaw, “The process of biometric registration for salaries and elections cards has started in the Peshmerga Ministry and, after that process is finished, it will begin among Peshmerga soldiers of the 70 and 80 units.”Barzani has reportedly emphasized that whoever fails to register in the new biometric system will not be paid by the government.Commenting on the order issued by Barzani, Yawar told Rudaw English, “I have not seen it myself, but if we do receive it, we will hasten the process by increasing our teams” carrying out the registrations into the new system.Nearly 90 percent of civil servants have registered under the electronic payment system, numbering around 843,000 people who are currently on the Kurdish government's payroll.
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