Daily Times

The transporter community of Khyber district carried out protest demonstration against collection of unlawful money from drivers in Bara here at Bacha Khan Chowk, main bazaar of Landi Kotal on Tuesday. Dozens of local transporters gathered at Bacha Khan Square,Landi Kotal Bazar while holding banner inscribed with slogans in favor of their demand. They chanted full-throat slogans against the illegal collection of money from drivers at main road by the unrepresentative elements in Bara and marched towards Landi Kotal press club. The speakers including Rehman Zeb, Malik Abdullah Khan and others said that the representatives of the transport community with assistance of local police officials received illicit money from the transporters in the name of parking. They said that next to, the Frontier Corp (FC) opened an allegedly unlawful token procedure at Takhta Baig checkpoint of Khyber district and no truck was permitted to cross the point without the token that was injustice to them. Beside the order of the Prime Minister, Imran Khan that not a single penny would be received from the transporters from Karachi to Torkham, they were still fleecing by influential elements by the name of parking lots at number of points in district Khyber. They threatened that if the collection of illegal money from the drivers in Bara was not stopped within three days then they would suspend Pak-Afghan highway in Landi Kotal for all kinds of movement.