A protest sit-in was staged on Tuesday at the Pak-Afghan highway in Chaman against the “Single Document Regime Policy,” which requires Pakistani and Afghan citizens to travel between the two countries with a valid passport and visa.

The sit-in was organized by the Awami National Party, Pushtunkhwa National Party (Khushal), National Democratic Movement, Pushtun Tahafuz Movement, Anjuman Tajiran Chaman, and Laghari Ittehad. The parties are protesting the replacement of a decades-old practice that allowed individuals from divided tribes along the 2,600-kilometer border to cross with special travel permits.

Protesters argued that the new policy undermined the traditional cross-border mobility of tribal communities, whose lives and families are spread across both sides of the frontier. The introduction of stricter documentation requirements has sparked resistance from those who see it as a threat to their way of life.