Tag: Pak-Afghan border

Chaman district govt constitutes jirga to resolve issues concerning border protection

CHAMAN: A 13-member tribal jirga has been constituted by the district government to go to Afghanistan to resolves issues of border protection. This was...

Pakistan, Afghanistan to settle border dispute using Google maps

Pakistan and Afghanistan plan to use Google Maps to help settle a border dispute that led to deadly clashes last week, officials from both...

Pakistan, Afghanistan begin joint survey following border clashes

QUETTA: Pakistan and Afghanistan on Monday started a joint survey of the Killi Luqman and Killi Jahangir villages along their border near Chaman following...

China hopes Islamabad, Kabul “would properly” address border issue

BEIJING: As the situation remains tense on the Pak-Afghan border following Afghan troops’ aggression and Pakistani forces’ retaliatory response, China hoped the both governments in...

Pak-Afghan border to soon be re-opened for trade, says commerce minister

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will soon re-open its border crossings with Afghanistan for trade after security enhancement under a new border management plan, Minister for Commerce Khurram...

Stranded trucks drivers at Pak-Afghan border protest against border closure

  PESHAWAR: Stranded owners of trucks and their drivers at Pak-Afghan border, Torkham, staged a protest on Thursday. Dozens of protesters holding black flags and...

Pak-Afghan border remain open on second day

The Pak-Afghan border at Torkham remained open for pedestrians from both sides on the second consecutive day on Wednesday; thousands of people who were...

Afghan traders demand Pakistan to allow delivery of stranded goods

Afghanistan Transporters Association President Mohammad Noor Ahmadzai has called upon authorities in Pakistan to order re-opening of all crossing points with Afghanistan, enabling the...

Border closed to stop infiltration, Pakistan tells Afghan FO

--Ambassador says Pakistan wants peace in Afghanistan Afghanistan Foreign Office on Sunday summoned Pakistan’s ambassador to Kabul and complained that people are facing difficulties due...

Stranded Afghans demand Pak-Afghan border reopened

In a bid to convince Pakistani authorities to allow them to enter their motherland, hundreds of Afghans—stranded due to the sealing of Pak-Afghan border...

Afghanistan demands reopening of Pak-Afghan border

  ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan’s Ambassador to Islamabad Omar Zakhilwal has demanded the authorities reopen the Torkham border, saying the closure was causing ‘hardships’ for people on either...

Pakistan prepares for major op as artillery moved near Afghan border

LANDIKOTAL: Pakistan Army has readied a major operation against the terrorists as a large supply of arms and ammunition including artillery has been shifted...

Pak Afghan border troops stop bombing attack from explosives-laden donkey

Pakistan’s security forces thwarted a bombing at the Pak Afghan border by capturing a donkey laden with explosives and three men who was plotting...

8 terrorists killed near Pak-Afghan border: ISPR

Inter-Services Public Relations on Thursday said that eight terrorists have been killed during a combing operation near the Pak-Afghan border in Chaman. A huge amount...

Pak-Afghan border at Chaman remains closed on fifth day

The Pakistan-Afghanistan border at Chaman remained closed for the fifth consecutive day Monday (today) with the NATO supply and cross-border trade suspended on both...

Pak-Afghan border at Chaman closed after attack on Friendship Gate

Pakistan authorities shut down the Pakistan-Afghanistan border at Chaman on Friday after a group of Afghan demonstrators attacked the Friendship Gate at Chaman and...

Operation launched along Pak-Afghan border in Khyber Agency: ISPR

The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) announced the launch of an operation along the Pak-Afghan border in Rajgal valley Tuesday (today). “An operation has been launched...