The N-40 National Highway, which is the main route between Pakistan and Iran, remained shut for the ninth consecutive day as the families of 10 missing youth from Kardgap continued to hold protest in Noshki,

The Torkham dispute — and indeed all the controversies concerning the Pak-Afghan frontier — needs a permanent solution so that people’s lives are not upended by closures and violence every few months.

A Pakistani official says residents have fled a border area with Afghanistan after forces from both sides clashed into the early hours of the morning.

An Taliban official says shelling from Pakistan has injured three Afghan journalists reporting on the closure of a key border crossing.

As the key crossing stayed shut for the 16th consecutive day, trade activity and travel between the two countries via Torkham have come to a grinding halt. Due to the route closure, thousands of people, including patients, women, children and elderly men, have been stranded for the last two weeks.

Prior to the ceasefire, tensions have remained high in the Torkham area and its surroundings, with both sides having engaged in heavy gunfire and shelling. The border village of Bacha Mena on the Pakistani side was evacuated, with residents relocated to safer areas due to intense cross-border shelling.

The closure of the Torkham border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan results in daily losses of 3 million dollars

KHYBER: A tense calm prevailed on both sides of the Torkham border on Thursday despite an overnight a partial letup in artillery shelling. Local traders and transporters told Dawn that they were asked by the authorities to pull out all the stranded vehicles from the customs terminal.

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The Torkham crossing, one of two main trade corridors between Pakistan and landlocked Afghanistan, has been closed for 11 days after Islamabad objected to the construction of a new checkpoint on the A