Truckers’ protest against Afghan border police continues

LANDIKOTAL: Transporters continued their strike on the second day on Saturday against the illegal collection of money by the Afghan border police.

The number of loaded trucks parked on the Pakistani side of the Torkham border rose to about 1,200 on the second day of the protest.

Transporter unions have stopped all the Afghanistan-bound trucks at Torkham to record their protest against the injustice with the Pakistani truckers.

Khyber Transporters union president Shakir Afridi told reporters that they were not ready to accept the illegal tax to the Afghan border police. He said it would cause billions of rupees loss to the Afghan importers as they had halted goods supply to Afghanistan for the last two days.

Shakir Afridi threatened to observe a wheel-jam strike from Karachi to Torkham border if the Afghan government did not take back the illegal tax imposed on Pakistani truckers.