Hundreds of Afghans, Pakistanis cross Durand Line

PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): Pakistan, an official says.

At least 500 Pakistanis were taken to a quarantine centre in Khyber tribal district after their return from the neighbouring country on Saturday.

Pakistan’s consulate in Jalalabad had set up an office to facilitate the homecoming of Pakistanis stranded in the neighbouring, a spokesman for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government said.

Ajmal Wazir told a news conference in Peshawar that 345 Afghan Tableeghi Jamaat members, who were stranded in KP, had been sent back to their country.

Officials at the Torkham entry point said most of the 518 Pakistanis, who retoured from Afghanistan on Saturday, were daily-wage workers and ordinary citizens, including 177 women.

All 238 Afghan preachers, who had arrived from the Tableeghi Jamaat Markaz, Raiwind, after being quarantined for two weeks, were deported early on Saturday.

Another 221 Afghans were shifted to the border on Saturday evening and they would be repatriated after approval from Afghan authorities.

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