Laborers condemns Afghan Taliban for restricting entry

F.P. Report

LANDI KOTAL: Local daily wagers and local laborers criticized the Afghan border security officials for banning their entry to Afghanistan via Torkham border.

In a pretest camp sit-up at Landi Kotal-Torkham highway, they said that they said that due to lack of job opportunities locally, hundreds of tribesmen crossed the border legally to Afghanistan to earn three times meals for their family; however, since last day the Afghan authorities had restrained their movement that was injustice to them.

Because of the constrained policy of the Afghan officials at the crossing thousands of poor families have been compelled to starve, they added and said since long the laborers have been teased at the border on pretext of new exit and entry rules to deprive them of their manual work (job). They demanded of the Afghan border security officials to have mercy on them, relax restrictions and permit them to cross the border to earn bread for their families.

The protestors threatened an indefinite agitation till acceptance of their demands. Meanwhile Tehsil Chairman Haji Shah Khalid along with a number of village and neighborhood chairmen visited the protest camp of the laborers and exposed their solidarity with them.

Speaking on the occasion he said that the area was short of source of income and Torkham border was the lonely opportunity of earning for the locals therefore efforts should be made to provide relief to the laborers and daily wagers at the crossing.