KHYBER AGENCY: After a successful dialog between the Clearing Agents Association and the custom officials, the import-export goods clearing activities resumed at Torkham Custom Center on Thursday. The said activity remained suspended for 24 hours, Torkham clearing agents said.
It is to be mentioned here that the clearing process halted on Wednesday morning when the custom officials introduced nine new conditions for exporting trading commodities while five conditions were set for importers and the officials asked the clearing agents to meet all the given requirements during the clearing process.
President Clearing Agents Association, Torkham Haji Hayatullah said they held a meeting with Deputy Collector (DC) Torkham Custom Center Najeeb-ur-Rehman that was also attended by administration and forces officials. At the moot, they convoyed their grievances to the custom officials.
It was decided that the custom officials would revise the newly conditions introduced for the import, export and the clearing activities would be restarted temporarily with old procedure of clearing process.
It was also agreed that the matter would be solved by the high custom officials of Pakistan and Afghanistan mutually, he added.
A custom official at Torkham also confirmed the development and said that clearing process was restarted at the custom center Torkham at noon.
