The agents who were clearing vehicles to protest said that the customs officers were demanding to know every aspect of the cars carrying imports from Afghanistan, even before they arrived at the Torkham border, and without any computerized scanning or weighing.
They said they were unable to comply with the new regulation because doing so would have put them at risk of being linked to the seizure of any contraband that was later discovered in a container through electric scanning by customs officials.
They claimed that ammunition found in an import vehicle during electronic scanning had only been retrieved by customs officials a few days prior. According to them, clearing agents insisted on continuing with the gate-in clearance process while customs authorities insisted on providing them with a copy of the joint goods declaration (GD).
