Pakistan reopens Torkham border after Afghan assurance

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan reopened its border with Afghanistan at Torkham on Saturday after it was closed earlier in a protest over incidents of torture to Pakistani truck drivers by Afghan forces.

Afghanistan ambassador to Pakistan Mohammad Omar Daudzai was summoned to the Foreign Office (FO) regarding the incidents where the Afghan envoy assured Pakistan that its government would investigate the matter and the culprits would be punished.

He also reassured that the Afghan government would ensure that such incidents do not recur in the future.

Pakistani security guards had shut the border crossing on Friday for the second time in a week to register their protest against ‘illegitimate treatment’ of Afghan police with Pakistani nationals in Afghanistan.