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Pakistan seals Durand Line after fall of Wesh

Pakistan seals Durand Line after fall of Wesh

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15 Jul 2021 - 13:22
Pakistan seals Durand Line after fall of Wesh
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15 Jul 2021 - 13:22

PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): Pakistan has sealed the Durand Line after the fall of a key border town the Taliban in southern Kandahar province.

On Wednesday, Afghan media outlets reported the insurgents had wrested control of Wesh near the Pakistani town of Chaman.

“The Friendship Gate has been closed from both sides, which stopped all kinds of traffic and human movement,” a Pakistani newspaper reported on Thursday.

Dawn said the insurgents had taken control of the Wesh Mandi, an area of importance for Afghanistan’s trade with Pakistan and other countries.

Besides putting its border forces on high alert, Pakistan has deployed reinforcements to the frontier region, the newspaper added.

“Around 500 Afghans, including patients who came for treatment to Chaman, are now waiting to return home,” one official told the daily.

Hundreds of trucks and long-body vehicles carrying transit goods and other items to Afghanistan also stranded in Chaman.

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