Islamabad, Nov. 7 -- In a new report, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has accused Pakistan of turning its border management policies into instruments of suffering and social collapse across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.

The fact-finding study, titled "When Policy Divides," paints a grim picture of how Pakistan's post-2023 passport-visa regime and the fencing of the Durand Line have destroyed livelihoods, fractured families, and deepened resentment among border communities.

According to the report, an estimated 20,000 to 25,000 people who used to cross the Pakistan-Afghanistan border daily, labourers, traders, drivers, and divided families, have lost their only means of income since the "one-document policy" came int...