DERA GHAZI KHAN, Oct 8: Turning a deaf ear to the interior ministry’s directive, the Border Military Police on Sunday failed to record the movement of four foreigners who set foot in the district in violation of a ban.

Sources said four British nationals — two on motorcycles and as many by a jeep — crossed the Balochistan-Punjab border and entered Dera Ghazi Khan’s tribal area tehsil without any check.

Neither the BMP check posts of Baiwata and Khar nor the district police questioned the foreigners despite clear-cut orders that the record of the foreigners’ movement should be maintained for security reasons.

Sources said the BMP officials rather escorted the visitors to the settled area of the district. They moved in the rest of the district under the blessings of the Punjab police. Later, they left for Peshawar.

Earlier, the interior ministry had taken strict notice of the district police and BMP’s failure to keep record of foreigners’ movement which allowed eight UK nationals to commit the brazen-faced act of taking away a 100-year-old coffin of a British woman from the Fort Munro cemetery.

The Punjab police were alleged to have escorted them at the border of the tribal area but their information was not signalled to the BMP as is required.