LANDIKOTAL: Hundreds of trucks started their transportation on Tuesday after Torkham border closed for all kind of transportation was reopened after 10 days, officials said. They said that as the border was reopened for transportation more than 500 loaded trucks parked at Pakistani side proceeded their movment. Custom officials said they allowed cargo vehicles to
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TORKHAM: A joint meeting of government departments,traders and custom agents union was held at Torkham customs compound and discussed various issues including liason and cooperation to smoothly run the transportation from and to Afghamistan. Additional Collector of Customs Muhammad Rizwan chaired the meeting which attended by oficials of Federal Investigation Agency(FIA),police,anti-natcotics,dostrict administration and Torkham
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LANDIKOTAL:Torkham custom appraisment force foiled a bid to smuggle a cape of narcotics and ammunition to Pakistan and arrested the afghan national, officials said on Saturday. Custom official Mujaid Khan said on a tip off shared by custom collector appraisment Peshawar they stopped a loaded truck(KBL3447)as it entered Pakistan from Afghanistan via Torkham border. He
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TORKHAM: Torkham custom appraisment officials foiled bids to smuggle mobile cell phones and foreign currency and arrested the piddler, officials said on Tuesday. Assistant collector Torkham custom appraisment Fariha Naqvi told this scribe that they recovered 0.1 million Saudi Riyals from an Afghanistan bounded truck in Torkham. She said the currency was tried to smuggle
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TORKHAM: Customs Appraisement officials at Torkham border foiled an attempt to smuggle millions of ruppes of precious stones from Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said. Custom official Ayaz told said that taking action on a tip-off, a coal loaded truck(KBL-1881) coming from Afghanistan, was intercepted at Torkham border. He said that during search, they recovered 71
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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
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LANDIKOTAL: Federal Investigation Agency(FIA) raided a shop in Torkham bazaar and seized a number of fake Afghan identity cards(Tazkra) and other travelling documents, officials said on Saturday. Assistant director FIA Torkham Yasar Arafat told The News that taking action on the basis of secrete information they raided a shop near Zaibullah godown and arrested a
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LANDIKOTAL: Traders,locals, and political leaders on Wednesday jointly arranged protest sit-in against the closure of Pak-Afghan border that caused billion of rupees losses to the businessmen and traders across the border. Hundreds of participants, including shopkeepers, custom clearing agents, importers and exporters, and leaders and workers of different political parties, were holding black flags, placards,
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LANDIKOTAL: Federal Investigation Agency(FIA) raided the lone Pak-Afghan Dosti hospital at Torkham border and arrested two human smugglers on the spot, officials said on Wednesday. A FIA official told The News that they on the intellegence based operation a raided was conducted at Dosti hospital and arrested Doctor Muhammad Arif Afridi and nurse Lance Naik
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…The LPG brought to Uzbekistan from Russia by rail, will be transported in tanker trucks to Pakistan TORKHAM: First cape long trailer trucks loaded with Liquefied Petroleum Gas(LPG) reached Pakistan from Russia via Torkham border, custom officials said on Tuesday. Assistant Collector custom appraisment Hammad said that 21 trucks loaded with 735 tons of Liquefied
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TORKHAM BORDER: Traders and businessmen on Friday demanded of the Pakistan and Afghan governments to jointly workout for the removal of hurdles at Torkham border crossing that caused the decline business activities at severe low level on both sides of the border. It was stated in a meeting held at Torkham border between Pak-Afghan joint
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…The sudden landslide in Torkham hills buried dozens of Afghanistan bound vehicles waiting to cross the border LANDIKOTAL: So far three dead bodies and four injured persons were confirmed and at least thirty heavy vehicles along with their crew members feared to be buried alive under the landslide debris in Torkham border, officials said on
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…Total 22050 kilograms of sugar was stored in the godowns LANDIKOTAL: Authorities in Landikotal raided several godowns after they recovered a huge quantity of sugar bags in Torkham border town, officials said on Monday. Assistant Commissioner of Landikotal Irshad Ali Mohmand told reporters that they conduct raids on several godowns in Bacha Mina locality in
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TORKHAM: Pakistan customs officials and other stakeholders held a meeting at Torkham border and discussed various trade related issues,officials sourcess said on Monday. Additional collector custom Muhammad Rizwan, addtional director transit Athar,Col, Bilal Yousif,General manager National Logistic Cell Col,(R)Aziz,Col, Sattar,federal deputy secretary of trade and commrace Mian Abdul Qadir Shah, addtional collector Ashfaq Ahmad,addtional secretary
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TORKHAM: The Torkham border crossing that had been closed by Afghan government three days ago could not reopned as Afghan authorities want to put pressure on Pakistan to accept their demands,sources said on Tuesday. Pakistan through different channels extend their wellingness to negotiate the issue and find a peaceful solution. This correspondent talked to a
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