JALALABAD (Pajhwok): About 20,000 patients and their relatives have travelled to Pakistan through a special commission without passports over the last three months.
The panel for transportation of patients examines the ailing people in Jalalabad daily. In case of need, gives patients permission (tokens) to go to Pakistan for medical treatment.
Mufti Ismatullah Yaqoob, the Torkham commissary chief, said some 20,000 patients and their relatives had crossed into Pakistan for treatment without visas over the past 90 days.
The patients/travelers were issued with special permits called tokens, he explained. Most of them were people whose treatment was . . .
