QUETTA, Sept 23: Security arrangements for VVIPs are causing all sorts of problems for students, commuters and the general public. On Thursday, thousands of vehicles were jammed on Zarghoon road, White road, Anscomb road, Joint road, Chaman Patak and Sariab Patak due to a courtesy call of Vice Chief of Army Staff Gen Hasan Saleem Hayat on Balochistan Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani. The snarl-up cleared after two hours.

Some 5,000 students of St. Francis Grammar School, St. Joseph’s Convent and Sacred Heart School were stranded inside their classrooms following the security measures. The students were forced to remain there for about half an hour because the visiting VVIPs were scheduled to drive past the front of their schools.

To resolve the problem, people have proposed that either the governor’s and chief minister’s houses which are adjacent to each other be shifted to the Cantonment area or a helipad be constructed on the vast land of the governor’s house for landing of a helicopter of the VVIP officials.

PAKISTANIS ARRESTED: Taftan levies on Thursday arrested 132 Pakistanis along the Iran border who were travelling without legal documents.