Torkham border absolutely reopened for commerce, transit, and pedestrian motion from each side, says Pakistani official.
(Reuters)
Pakistan reopened a key border crossing with neighbouring Afghanistan to all forms of visitors.
The Afghan embassy in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, introduced the reopening of the Torkham border on Saturday on Twitter.
The Torkham border, which connects Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to neighbouring Afghanistan’s japanese Nangarhar province, was shut down unilaterally by the Taliban administration final week.
Later the Afghan administration introduced to reopen it on Thursday. However, Pakistani authorities refused to reopen the border, a neighborhood official on the border advised Anadolu Agency over the telephone.
“Last evening, we temporarily opened the border for Pakistanis who were stuck on the Afghan side,” the official mentioned, declining to be recognized as a result of he was not authorised to talk with the media.
“Finally, we fully reopened the border for trade, transit and pedestrian movement from both sides this morning,” he added.
Last Sunday, Kabul unilaterally shut down the border crossing. The closure adopted an change of fireside between the 2 border forces on Monday.
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The newest growth got here three days after Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif met with Afghanistan’s performing Deputy Prime Minister Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and performing Defence Minister Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob in Kabul on Wednesday.
Pakistan and landlocked Afghanistan share 18 crossing factors, with the busiest ones being the Torkham and Chaman, which connects Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province with Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province.
Clashes between the 2 border troops have lengthy been going down, and there’s no lull even after the Taliban retook Afghanistan in August 2021.
Last December, a minimum of six Pakistani civilians had been killed in an change of heavy hearth alongside the Chaman border.
Apart from commerce actions, hundreds of individuals, principally Afghans, each day cross the border crossing for medical and labour functions.
The two neighbours share a porous border of just about 2,670 kilometres.
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