Ahmad Nabi
LANDI KOTAL: Clearing agent association, Torkham boycotted clearing process on Monday against one Goods Declaration (GD) farm one truck policy, introduced by the custom center at Torkham border.
Senior clearing agent Haji Jamal Afridi said that previously they had cleared number of vehicles at one time on one GD, loaded with export or import commodities. But the newly appointed assistant collector issued direction according to which, one truck would be cleared at one clearing farm.
“Through the fresh clearing process, the clearing agents will be able to clear only four to five vehicles each”, he argued. When the assistant collector, custom AsmaParacha was contacted on the matter she said that one GD farm one vehicle procedure was not a new clearing process but it was part of Web Base One Custom (WEBOC) system, introduced across the country.
“Like other parts of the country, the custom department adopts every possible measure to implement WEBOC system in true spirit at Torkham border”, she remarked. Due to strike of the clearing agents, thousands of loaded vehicles stuck at both sides of the border and long queues of trailers cloud be witnessed on LandiKotal-Torkham road.
