By Ashraf Uddin
LANDIKOTAL: Frontier Corps for the first time posted lady
searchers at Torkham border to thoroughly check travel documents of the Afghan
nationals, official sources said on Wednesday.
A Frontier Corps(FC) told The News on the condition of
anonymity that four lady searcher have been posted at two important checking
points. He said two lady searchers were posted at main Torkham border while the
other two were performing duty at Shaheed Mor, a kilometer from the Pak-Afghan
border Torkham. The FC official said that they had directed the lady searchers
to thoroughly check travel documents of all passengers coming from Afghanistan.
He said it would help reduce security risks as Afghan female citizens used to
enter Pakistan without valid travel documents.
Local residents appreciated the FC officials for the
installation of lady searchers at the check posts said that it would reduce
illegal cross border movement from and to Pakistan.
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