Protesters blocked the Quetta-Chaman highway due to traffic restrictions between Pakistan and Afghanistan

According to the regional office Tasnim News, protesters of the ban on travel without visas and passports from border crossings between Afghanistan and Pakistan after The fruitlessness of the one-month sit-in to cancel this decision, they blocked the Quetta-Chaman highway to any traffic. After a month, the government of Pakistan has not paid attention to their requests.

Safi said that in the second phase of the protests, the protesters blocked the key Quetta-Chaman highway and The next step will be to go on strike and close government offices in South Pashtunkhah.

He added: We have closed transit, car traffic and customs, now let’s see. Does Pakistan hear our voice or not?

In the reports, it is said that “Khan Achakzai”, the minister of information of Balochistan province, has promised the protesters that the government will give any daily wage workers in this region to Known as “Laghri”, they pay eight thousand Pakistani kaldars per month to stop protesting. Local media have reported that Leghris have rejected the proposal of Balochistan’s Minister of Information.

Leghris are workers who move freely across the border and by transporting goods and passengers. Between Afghanistan and Pakistan, they support their lives.

Ghosullah Achakzai, the head of Chaman Daily Workers Union (Laghris) says that these workers will not accept Jan Achakzai’s offer, because They are working and “no one is sitting here to receive alms”.

These protests started after the interim government of Pakistan announced a unilateral decision to prevent entry Illegal Afghans to Pakistan A visa verification system has been established at the border crossings with Afghanistan, and from now on, only those travelers who have an Afghan passport and a Pakistani visa can cross the Afghanistan-Pakistan border crossing.