PM Khan orders arrangements for Torkham border to remain open 'round the clock'
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday said he has tasked officials to make arrangements so that the Torkham border crossing to Afghanistan can remain open 24 hours a day. He said he wants to see a plan finalised and implemented within the next six months.
In a tweet, the premier said the functioning of the border crossing "round the clock" would be "instrumental in boosting bilateral trade [and] enhancing people to people contacts between the two brotherly countries".
Khan's post followed an announcement by KP Finance Minister Taimur Saleem Khan Jhagra, who revealed earlier in the day that the federal and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governments had decided to expedite the reopening of the Torkham border crossing.
A day after Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor said that work on a 900-kilometre-long portion of fence along the Pak-Afghan border has been completed, the KP minister announced "two key decisions" regarding the Torkham border.