After Pakistani police closed the Torkham border crossing into Pakistan in eastern Nangarhar province on Tuesday, now the Pakistani border Police has set a deadline for Afghans.
Pakistan's border police say that within the next three days they will not allow any Afghans even those who bear refugee documents, to enter Pakistan without passport.
"In our country, we don't have proper hospitals. So we have to take our patients to Pakistan and this issue really created trouble for us even people are forced to go to Pakistan through mountain routes, an Afghan traveller told TOLOnews.
Meanwhile, a number of Afghan residents called on the government to solve the problem with the Pakistan government.
"Passport and Visa should not be the condition, and both countries must find a solution for this problem," another Afghan traveller told TOLOnews.
Pakistani border police said that, only Afghans holding passports can enter Pakistan and those Afghan refugees who are living in Pakistan must be issued passports within three days, otherwise they will not be allowed to enter Pakistan.
"We can't get a passport in one day and until we get a passport, our patient will die, this is a big problem for us," another Afghan traveller told TOLOnews.
On the other hand, the Afghan government has not said anything yet.
Currently there are more than two million and seven hundred thousand Afghans living in Pakistan and it seems that the recent decision of Pakistan will create lots of troubles for them.
It comes after at least four Afghans died, after the Pakistani police closed the Torkham border crossing into Pakistan in eastern Nangarhar province on Tuesday.
The incident took place on Tuesday, when the Pakistani border
keepers closed the gate stranding a large number of Afghans, including the sick and elderly, the Afghan border police commissioner Hedayatullah Orya said.
"Four Afghans who were sick died as a result of Pakistani border keepers' refusal to let them cross the border," he said.
However, he said the case of border closure is not yet clear.
Meanwhile, eyewitnesses said that the border gate closure had led to testy exchanges between Pakistani and Afghan border keepers.
Most of the Afghans take their patients to Pakistan because of the lack of appropriate health facilities in Afghanistan.