238 Afghan Tableghi workers quarantine in Landi Kotal

Ahmad Nabi

LANDI KOTAL: As many as 238 Afghan Tableghi volunteers have been quarantined here in Boys degree college, Landi Kotal on Thursday.

The district administrative official said that the preachers had been transported from Raiwand,Lahore after Tableghi activities were suspended in the center to Landi Kotal with the purpose to sent them back to their native country, Afghanistan.

All the 238 Tableghi whose lab cases had been detected negative coronavirus were quarantined in the center where all facilities were provided to them, the official said.

“All data of the preachers have been finalized and they will be extradited to the Afghan border security officials following decision of the Pak government,” the official added. 

It is important to state that after breaking out of the fatal disease generally though out the world and especially in Pakistan, elders of Tableghi Jamaat suspended all their preaching activities and asked the volunteers to limit their movements.