TORKHAM: Federal Investigation Agency(FIA) seniors officials on Thursday visited to Torkham border and checked the Afghan repatriation process and met with passengers and officials at Torkham border.
Director FIA Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Nisar Tanoli accompanied by Director Intergrated Border Management System(IBMS)Islamabad Yaseen Farooq and Director admin Shakeel Durrani along with field staff visited Pak-Afghan dosti hospital and departure and arrival pedestrian tubes in Torkham border.
The officials also checked the Identity Verification and Alert System(IVAS) at FIA checking point.
Assistant director FIA Torkham Yasir Arafat comprehensively briefed the officials about the current facilitation and repatriation process of undocumented Afghan nationals at Torkham Immigration and passanger luggage scanning process.
The officials were also briefed about the Afghan patients facilitation counter and procedure usually take place at Dosti hospital situated at Zero point at Torkham border crossing.
FIA officials said that the visit of high ups was to ensure a smooth documentarion process of undocumented Afghan citizens repatriating back to their country. He said they have deployed extra staff at Torkham Nadra checking point so that they could quickly process the passengers documents with all rest of facilitation and services for repatriating Afghan citizens.
The senior visiting director FIA Khyber Pakhtunkhwa highly appreciated the FIA staff deployed at Torkham border and urged them to work round the clock so that Afghan citizens especially women,children and elderly men returning to their country not wait for long time at Torkham border.
It may be added here that after the announcement of deadline set for voluntarily leaving Pakistan around three thounds Afghan citizens have so far returned to Afghanistan via Torkham border.
