QUE T TA: The Balochistan government has started removingunnecessarycheckposts of different security agencies from different highways and abolished 25 check-posts on Quetta-Zhob highway.

Political parties and businessmen have been demandingremovalof suchcheck-posts from the highways for a long time, terming them a hurdle in the way of free movement of import and export goods.

Chief Minister Mir Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo had announced removal of such checkposts while speaking in the Balochistan Assembly after being elected leader of the house.

Home department officials said here on Tuesday that the government had decided to abolish unnecessary check-posts from the highways across Balochistan.

`In the first phase, 25 out of 28 check-posts at N-50 between Quetta and Zhob have been removed,` they said, adding that only three checl(-postswouldberetained at entry and exit points in Kuchlak and Zhob, which would be jointly manned by different security agencies.

The officials said that removal of unnecessary check-posts and setting up of joint posts will save travellers` time and provide better facilities to them.