CHAMAN: Enraged people blocked Quetta-Chaman highway at Dara-e-Khojak area in protest on Tuesday against the detention of the Laghari Ittehad leaders.

On the call of All Parties, Anjuman-e-Tajiran, and Laghari Ittehad of Chaman region, the angry protesters blocked Quetta Chaman main highway and raised slogans against the authorities. The blockade of highway caused long queues of vehicles moving between Quetta and Chaman.

It is pertinent to mention All Parties Chaman, Anjuman-e-Tajiran, and Laghari Ittehad have been observing protest sit-in in Chaman for the last many months against the implementation of “Single Document Regime “ for travelling between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Police detained leaders and workers of Laghari Ittehad the previous day when they staged a protest sit-in outside Passport Office Chaman against single document regime.

Separately, Caretaker Minister for Information, Jan Achakzai has said that protesters were arrested after they took the law into their hands by blocking passport office in Chaman.

In a statement issued here on Tuesday, he said that permission had been granted to All Parties Chaman, Anjuman-e-Tajiran and Laghari Ittehad to observe peaceful protest sit-in in Chaman, but the government had to intervene after protesters resorted to provocative act by blocking Passport Office in Chaman. He said that implementation of “Single Document Regime” was the decision of the state and it would be implemented at any cost.