After a successful round of dialogue between the Pakistani and Afghan authorities, the Torkham Border which remained closed for 10 days, was reopened on Friday. Border sources said pedestrian crossing at the border has started as hundreds of Afghans willing to cross into Afghanistan have reached the Torkham Immigration Section at the border. The Customs authorities have also started clearance of import, export and transit vehicles at the border as during the last 10 days thousands of such vehicles remained stranded at Torkham. The border was closed after the situation became tense on 6th September when Afghan authorities started construction near the border with Pakistan which also led to cross firing between the two forces. Later, the Pakistani authorities completely closed the border for all kinds of crossings. The sources said the border was reopened after a surety from the Afghan interim government was provided that it would not allow its soil to be used against Pakistan. The Afghan government had also put forward a request to Pakistan to reopen the border on a humanitarian basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After a successful round of dialogue between the Pakistani and Afghan authorities, the Torkham Border which remained closed for 10 days, was reopened on Friday. Border sources said pedestrian crossing at the border has started as hundreds of Afghans willing to cross into Afghanistan have reached the Torkham Immigration Section at the border. The Customs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6349],"class_list":{"0":"post-356064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-torkham-border"},"yoast_head":"\n