Security concerns: Quetta-Taftan highway blocked in protest

Pilgrims not allowed to travel back due to security reasons stage sit-in

QUETTA: Pilgrims on Monday blocked the Quetta-Taftan highway in protest against the local administration which stopped them from traveling back citing security reasons.

The pilgrims, stuck in the border town of Taftan for a week, staged a sit-in on the highway causing huge traffic disruption.



Sources told The Express Tribune that it is customary for Pakistani pilgrims to Iran to face such a situation for 10 to 15 days.  However, they clarified that the pilgrims are taken back in convoys by the district administration after every 10 to 15 days.

The district administration was negotiating with the protesting pilgrims till the filing of this report.