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Akhtar Buland Rana, a former auditor general of Pakistan, was jailed this week for concealing the fact that he is a Canadian.

According to Pakistani media, Rana was handed a six-month prison sentence after it was found that he had deliberately concealed his Canadian identity while obtaining multiple Pakistani passports.

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It follows only two weeks after a similar — although less severe — case in which Australian senator Larissa Waters was forced to resign after she learned she was a Canadian.

Waters was born in Winnipeg, but moved to Australia as a baby. Unaware that her Canadian birth had given her automatic citizenship, she was unwittingly in violation of the Australian constitution’s ban against parliamentarians who hold dual citizenship.

Holding dual citizenship is generally forbidden in Pakistan, and is specifically barred for members of Parliament.

While Canada is one of 18 countries for which dual Pakistani citizenship is allowed, an investigation by Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency concluded that Rana broke the law by concealing his Canadian nationality on several government application forms.