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Pakistan Allows UN to Send Relief Supplies to Afghanistan Through 2 Key Border Crossings
Pakistan permits UN aid shipments through a closed border in a limited, three-phase process following October clashes, while trade remains suspended, officials said.
- Thursday, Pakistan will allow the United Nations to deliver relief supplies into Afghanistan through the Chaman and Torkham crossings, marking the first partial opening since October.
- Islamabad says the border with Afghanistan was only shut over Kabul's support to Pakistani Taliban, and the closure traces to clashes and militant accusations, according to Pakistani officials.
- The first phase allows 143 containers, including 67 WFP food, 74 UNICEF children’s supplies, and 2 UNFPA healthcare containers, with aid transfers set in three phases, an official said.
- Officials stress the reopening is conditional and does not restore normal trade or transit, with losses topping $100 million and 25,000 workers affected, while at least 495 vehicles queue at Chaman and Torkham.
- Despite UN confirmation that aid will enter soon, the Spin Boldak information department head said local gates remain closed; Ishaq Dar, Pakistan's Foreign Minister, received a UN request following talks with the UN resident coordinator in Pakistan, highlighting Pakistan as Afghanistan's biggest trading partner last year.
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Pakistan allows UN to send relief supplies to Afghanistan through 2 key border crossings
A government official says Pakistan is allowing the United Nations to deliver relief supplies into Afghanistan through two key border crossings that have been closed for nearly two months.
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Pakistan says to let humanitarian aid into Afghanistan
Pakistan will temporarily allow UN relief supplies into Afghanistan, officials said Thursday, in the first partial border opening since deadly clashes erupted between the two neighbours in October. The countries have been locked in an increasingly bitter dispute since the Taliban authorities retook control in Kabul in 2021. Islamabad accuses its neighbour of harbouring militants that launch cross-border attacks, charges that the Afghan governmen…
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