Afghanistan- All right hand drive cars to be collected, disassembled

Col. Mohammad Shafiq Sayedi, the traffic department head, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the plan would be implemented following the National Security Council (NSC)'s decision.

Article 19 of the traffic law says vehicles in Afghanistan

Sayedi said the NSC in 2011 gave temporary licensees for five years to right hand drivers and when the period ended, all right hand drive vehicles should be collected and disassembled.

He said the five-year term of temporary right hand vehicle licenses had ended in 2016 and the NSC in 2017 decided to collect the right hand drive cars.

The traffic general department has now decided to seriously implement the right hand drive vehicles' collection plan and has ordered provincial offices to follow the decision, he said.

Currently 70,000 right hand drive vehicles are registered with the Traffic Department in the country and thousands of such vehicles may still be unregistered but used, he said.

He said all right hand drive vehicles would be collected and handed over to the customs department and would be scraped.

Gen. Sayed Mahbob, Kabul traffic department head, said 250 right hand drive vehicles had so far been collected and the plan would be strictly implemented in the capital.

Ahmad Rashad Popal, general customs head, said they would decide on scraping right hand vehicles after their collection and handover to the customs department.

The customs department would sign a contract with a credible company for parting the vehicles and then handing them over to their owners, he concluded.

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