Traffic restriction protesters: If Islamabad does not accept our demands, we will disobey

, protesters in Chaman gave the interim government of Pakistan until Friday, January 1, to cancel the order banning visa-free travel from the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

They warned that if Islamabad does not accept their demands, they will engage in more disobedience.

Hundreds of protesters from the past 58 days They have staged a sit-in in Pakistan’s Chaman region against the decision to ban visa-free travel from the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Due to these restrictions, the work and burden of the residents of Chaman has been facing a crisis since the last two months. He called the border “cruel” and said that this decision has damaged their business. The scheduled elections have taken unprecedented decisions about the border issues and immigrants in this country in the past months. It gave more than 1.7 million Afghan refugees a month to leave Pakistan. With the end of the deadline, the Ministry of Interior of Pakistan has launched a massive operation to detain and forcibly deport refugees.

In another decision, the interim government of Pakistan announced that a visa verification system has been established at the border crossings with Afghanistan to prevent the illegal entry of Afghans into Pakistan. Therefore, only those passengers who have an Afghan passport and a Pakistani visa can cross the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

According to this decision, the movement of the people of the tribal areas, which was done with birth certificate and identity card since the establishment of Pakistan, from now on should be done with the use of Afghan passport and Pakistani visa. Other documents that were given in the past to the tribes living around the Durand Line in Afghanistan as permission to cross the border to visit family and trade have been invalidated.

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