Khyber Agency: Transporters condemn corruption
Transporters say more than a hundred vehicles were passing through Prang Sam and Bigyari check posts daily.
Addressing a news conference at the Landikotal Press Club, Haji Hukhyar Khan Shinwari along with other transporters and businessmen said more than a hundred vehicles were passing through Prang Sam and Bigyari check posts daily after the ban on non-customs paid (NCP) vehicles had been lifted.
He said khasadar officials on duty, who stopped the vehicles, were demanding heavy bribes to clear the vehicles. He explained tribesmen could no longer afford to pay the heavy amounts demanded by the officials, asking K-P Governor Shaukatullah Khan to take action against the corruption. Despite several attempts, neither the khasadar officials nor officials of the political administration commented on the issue.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 18th, 2013.
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