QUETTA, June 7: Border security personnel on Thursday arrested 12 Afghan nationals at the Pak-Afghan border for crossing into Pakistan illegally. According to official sources, the personnel of the Frontier Corps intercepted 12 Afghans who had entered Pakistani territory from Afghanistan using a rarely used route.

“They have been booked under the Foreigner’s Act as they crossed into Pakistan without the required travelling documents,” a senior official of the Federal Investigation Agency said, adding that the Afghans had been handed over to the FIA for further investigations.

Meanwhile, border officials handed over two Afghan nationals to the Afghan authorities because they had completed the sentence awarded to them by a local court for entering Pakistan without travel documents.