According to a Jerga leader from Pakistan, the Jirga members of Pakistan and Afghanistan reopened the Turkham Border Crossing on Wednesday after 27 days after 27 days.
After Pakistani and Afghan security forces created differences in construction activities on both sides of the border, on February 21, cross -border movement was suddenly suspended by the Turkham Border Crossing.
The situation worsened this month when eight people, including six soldiers, were injured when Pakistan and Afghan Taliban forces set fire to the border.
Artillery shells targeted several houses, a mosque and some offices of clearing agents, and firing across the border continued for three days. Since then, tribal elders on both sides of the border have been in talks to end the disruption.
According to the Vice President of the Pakistan-Afghan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Vice President of Ziaul Haq Sarhadi, 5,000 trade trucks were trapped on both sides on both sides, causing millions of dollars to loss of traders from both sides.
The head of the Pakistani jirga Syed Jawad Hussain Kazmi, on Wednesday, decided to reopen the border at a flag meeting in Tarkham on Wednesday. Don Dot Com.
Kazmi said the border has now been opened for cargo vehicles and will open for pedestrians and patients after repairing Pakistani customs infrastructure due to Afghan firing on Friday.
Kazmi added that further, the ceasefire was agreed immediately by April 15. The two sides agreed to stop the construction of controversial check posts.
At the flag meeting, Deputy Governor of Nangarhar Maulvi Azizullah and Commissioner Maulvi Hakmatullah represented Afghan.
“Pakistani members of the jirga pressured Afghan to stop controversial structures,” Kazmi said.
Afghan State News Agency Prosperity He also confirmed the reopening of the crossing for vehicles and patients. The report says that the movement of pedestrians will resume on Friday.
On March 17, a joint jirga consisting of elderly and businessmen signed an agreement that included reopening of the crossing, ceasefire, and stopping the construction of check posts towards Afghan near the border.
Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman Shafqat Ali Khan told a weekly press briefing on March 13 that the Afghan party has shown illegal and unilateral construction activity at two points along Pakistan’s border in the Pakistani territory.
On their behalf, Afghan Taliban officials insisted that they want to make check posts on their own.
Afghan Taliban officials claimed that Pakistan had been involved in illegal construction of towers.
Pakistani officials had made it clear to the Afghan that the tower was being constructed in the border terminal to facilitate traders and patients.
Two meetings with Pakistani and Afghan officials and the former Jarga meeting failed to resolve the issue.
