CHAMAN: Bab-e-Dosti (Pak-Afghanistan Chaman border) remains closed on the seventh day (Thursday) after the attack of the Afghan forces on Pakistani census team, however, sick and old Afghans are allowed to cross the border on humanitarian grounds.
The locals are forced to live in the temporary camps that have been built five kilometres away from the border.
Troops of Pakistan Army are still on high alert at the border to deal with any Afghan aggression. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) supply line, Afghan transit trade and pedestrian locomotion between Pakistan and Afghanistan, all are still suspended. The locals are forced to live in the temporary camps that have been built five kilometres away from the border.
NATO’s supply line and Afghan transit trade have been stopped, for the time being, which has resulted in long queues of vehicles at the border. Fruits, vegetables, and other food items are have started rotting in the containers and traders are suffering losses worth millions of rupee