A huge number of Afghans have entered Pakistan through the Spin Boldak/Chaman line crossing in Afghanistan’s southeast after the Taliban’s takeover of the country recently, including patients looking for clinical consideration and liberated Taliban detainees.
Pakistan Faces Influx Of Afghanistan Detainees Amidst Taliban Takeover
On Tuesday, the boundary stayed open for all Afghans conveying legitimate character certificates of being an enrolled Afghan outcast occupant in Pakistan, Afghan voyagers and specialists disclosed to Al Jazeera.
Thousands swarmed through a recently introduced entry for Afghan explorers into Pakistan at Chaman, with individuals coordinated through a wire-interface fence finished off with spiked metal from the International Border to a transportation center point found not exactly a kilometer away.
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Many went with older family members or others requiring quick clinical consideration, griping of an absence of wellbeing offices on the Afghan side of the boundary. A considerable lot of those assembled at the line disclosed to Al Jazeera that they were there to get family members who had been delivered from Afghan detainment facilities by the Taliban.
White Afghan Taliban banners rippled in the breeze, as family members garlanded the bringing fighters back.
“Presently the Islamic Emirate is in government and there is no conflict any more,” said Sanaullah, an Afghan Taliban contender who got back to Pakistan on Tuesday.
Taliban Took Over Jail And Its Airbase In July
Sanaullah, who hails from the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, about 90km southeast of Chaman, said he was caught in 2013 by Afghan security powers and detained at the notorious Bagram jail, that very year US powers gave it over to the Afghan government, the report said.
Afghan Taliban members held onto the jail and its appended airbase in July, days after US powers pulled out from the office which had been the focal point of the US and NATO military presence in Afghanistan.
“The Taliban came and liberated us from jail, there were near around 7,000 detainees, and we were liberated in around two hours by the Afghan Taliban,” Sanaullah said.
