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Pak reopens Torkham for Afghan refugees
The Statesman Kolkata
|November 02, 2025
Pakistan on Saturday partially reopened the Torkham border crossing with Afghanistan to allow thousands of stranded Afghan refugees to return home, officials said.
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Restrictions remain on all other cross-border movement, including trade.
Pakistan closed all border crossings with Afghanistan on 12 October following deadly clashes in which both sides claimed to have killed dozens of troops.
The closure, which lasted nearly three weeks, left thousands of Afghan refugees stranded along with hundreds of trucks carrying goods, suspending key trade routes between the two countries.
This story is from the November 02, 2025 edition of The Statesman Kolkata.
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