{"id":6850,"date":"2023-09-16T01:31:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T20:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/key-border-crossing-between-pakistan-and-afghanistan-reopens-after-9-day-closure\/"},"modified":"2023-09-16T01:31:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T20:01:11","slug":"key-border-crossing-between-pakistan-and-afghanistan-reopens-after-9-day-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/key-border-crossing-between-pakistan-and-afghanistan-reopens-after-9-day-closure\/","title":{"rendered":"Key border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan reopens after 9-day closure"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A key northwestern border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan reopened Friday after a nine-day closure due to clashes between border forces, officials from both sides said.<\/p>\n

Pakistan shut the Torkham border with its neighbor on September 6 after guards from both countries exchanged fire.<\/p>\n

It accused Taliban authorities of building “unlawful structures” in the vicinity.<\/p>\n

Pakistani government official Nasir Khan said the crossing reopened Friday morning. Afghanistan’s commissioner in Torkham, Ismatullah Yaqoob, said stranded trucks and pedestrians have started passing through the border.<\/p>\n

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Trucks carrying vital supplies for Afghanistan remain stranded at a terminal adjacent to a highway, following the closure of the crucial Torkham border crossing by Afghan Taliban authorities.\u00a0<\/span> (AP Photo\/Qazi Rauf, File)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A representative from the Pakistan and Afghanistan Joint Chamber of Commerce welcomed the move.<\/p>\n

“The reopening has ended the nine-day-long trouble faced by traders on both sides of the border,” said Ziaul Haq Sarhadi. Traders have faced heavy losses in perishable items, he said.<\/p>\n

Pakistan\u2019s envoy to Afghanistan Ubaidur Rehman Nizamani met the Taliban administration’s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Kabul a day earlier. They discussed the recent surge in terror incidents and the closure of Torkham.<\/p>\n

Pakistan accuses its neighbor of harboring militants and allowing them to use its soil to launch attacks. Afghanistan has rejected this allegation.<\/p>\n

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