LANDI KOTAL: Security guards at the Torkham border on Tuesday made announcements on loudspeakers warning Afghan nationals against travelling to Pakistan without valid documents.

Local sources said that the announcements were repeatedly made throughout the day in order to apprise the visiting Afghans at the border that the last date for allowing Afghans without legal documents had expired and no one would be given any relaxation from June 1 onwards. 

The local administration on its part had pasted pamphlets at prominent locations near the border with similar caution.

The announcements made on loudspeakers said that border guards and immigration staff would thoroughly check travel documents and Rahdari passes of every Afghan national crossing over to Pakistan and those without these documents would not be allowed to cross the border. 

Published in Dawn, June 1st, 2016