Afghans asked to register with Khyber police.

KHYBER -- Police have asked all the Afghan families residing in the district to immediately register themselves with the nearest police station.

Officials said that all the Afghans were asked to complete the required procedure of registration in three days and added that legal action would be taken against those failing to register in the stipulated time.

They said the step was taken after a similar exercise was ordered throughout the province after the Peshawar Police Lines suicide attack.

Meanwhile, jail officials in Landi Kotal imposed a ban on female relatives' visit to the sub-jail due to the absence of a female searcher. They said the ban would remain in place till a female searcher was posted at the sub-jail.

A number of the jail inmates and their relatives had objected to search of female visitors by male staff.

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