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Army resumes laying barbed wire along Afghan border
[DAWN] LANDI KOTAL: Personnel of the army’s engineering corps resumed laying barbed wire at selected locations along the Pak-Afghan border on Saturday after the Torkham border crossing was reopened on Friday evening, sources said.The sources said that Inspector General of the Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and anti-smuggling operations.... , Maj Gen Mazhar Shaheen, visited the border crossing and observed the situation there. On the occasion, they said, Maj Gen Shaheen instructed the border guards to show courtesy to the people crossing over into Pakistain or Afghanistan but keep a strict vigil on the movement of suspect people. He gave cash prizes to the border guards who worked overtime during the four days the Torkham border crossing remained closed. A great rush of people was seen at the crossing in the morning as thousands of Afghan nationals flocked to it after remaining stranded on the other side due to the four-day closure. Officials and clearing agents told Dawn that over 300 vehicles carrying export items, edibles and other goods were cleared at the Customs terminal for their journey into Afghanistan. A similar number of vehicles loaded with coal and marble, etc, crossed over into Pakistain, they said. The officials said the recently-installed human scanning machine remained busy throughout the day due to the large number of Afghans seeking to cross over into Pakistain. Restaurants, markets and offices of clearing agents in the area also reopened on Saturday. Posted by: Fred 2016-05-16 |
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