…As Custom collector ask Afghan border officials to take serious steps to stop contrabands being smuggled from Pakistan
TORKHAM BORDER: Pak-Afghan management and Afghan border officials held meeting at Torkham border and discussed bilateral trade and other related issues.
Pakistani including Frontier Corps(FC) Federal Investigation Agency(FIA) and custom officials participated.
Addtional collector custom Muhamaad Rizwan discussed border issues with Afghan authorities.He told the meeting that free and smooth trade with Afghanistan was their first priority.
He said they were further improving to expadite the clearance process. He said they were awared of the constraints of Afghan traders.He said export to Afghanistan was gradually increasing and they were working to further make the process easy for improvement.
Custom collector Rizwan requested the Afghan border officials to take strict serious steps to stop contrabands being smuggle from Pakistan.He said a aaege ammount of non custom paid items also being smuggle from Afghanistan.
Afghan officials requested Pakistani authorities to relax the border for Afghan patients and women visit Pakistan. They told Pakistani officials to increase the quota of daily patient permit coming Pakistan for medical treatment.
Pakistani border officials told Afghan counterparts that their issues would be take up with highups.
