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Pakistan opens border point with Afghanistan
Islamabad, Sep 1: Pakistan reopened its border with Afghanistan at Chaman on Thursday, 14 days after it was closed after an Afghan mob burnt a Pakistani flag and attacked the Friendship Gate.
Islamabad agreed to reopen the border point on Wednesday after Kabul strongly condemned the burning of the Pakistani flag. Officials from both sides held five meetings to discuss the issue until negotiations finally succeeded, Dawn online reported.
Trade activities between the two countries which had come to a standstill following closure of the border point resumed on Thursday and security on both sides remains strict.
A three-member Afghan delegation, led by Colonel Mohammad Ali, had at the Tuesday night meeting handed over to Pakistani officials a letter in which the Afghan government strongly condemned the August 18 incident of burning of the Pakistani flag and pelting the Friendship Gate with stones.
The Afghan officials also termed the flag-burning incident an attempt by certain elements to create misunderstanding between the two countries, Dawn newspaper reported.
Pakistan had closed the border on August 19, a day after the Afghan nationals set the Pakistan flag on fire when thousands of Pakistani tribesmen held a rally in Chaman in protest against the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks on Balochistan.
The 14-day closure of the border badly affected Nato supplies, transit trade and repatriation of Afghan refugees under a UNHCR programme. Traders from both sides also suffered huge financial losses as all business activities remained suspended, Dawn online noted.
Every day, between 10,000 and 15,000 Pakistani and Afghan traders cross into Chaman and Vesh Mandi in connection with their businesses in the border towns.
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