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Several touts selling fake passports arrested

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KABUL (Pajhwok): The Passport Department on Saturday announced the arrest of some individuals for selling forged passports for more than $1000 apiece.

On Friday, Pajhwok Afghan News published a report that the passport issuance service had been on hold for a month, but the document was still being issued unlawfully.

Findings of Pajhwok Afghan News show that Afghanistan’s passports are still being distributed by some touts.

In a statement on Saturday, the department said a number of people had been detained in different parts of Kabul in connection with making and distributing fake passports.

The agents were held by . . .

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