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After being closed for ten days due to fighting between border forces, the Pakistan-Afghanistan border at Torkham reopened for all types of travel on Friday.

Following the restoration of traffic at the border, pedestrian movement started, and hundreds of people flocked to the immigration area to enter Afghanistan.

"The clearance of trucks is in progress, and Afghan citizens are entering Afghanistan after clearance and passing immigration processes," Irshad Khan Mohmamd, assistant commissioner of the Khyber district in Pakistan, told AFP. Following a skirmish between the security forces of the two nations on September 6, which resulted in the injury of a Frontier Corps soldier,

The Torkham border between Pakistan and Afghanistan was shut down. The argument stemmed from the interim Afghanistan's "illegal construction" of a bunker.the administration on Pakistan's side of the border.

On September 11, the FO stated that Islamabad cannot allow any structures being built on its soil by the interim Afghan administration since they infringe its sovereignty.

The border crossing between the two countries, which share a porous 2,600-kilometer (1,600-mile) border that runs across rocky mountains and valleys, is the busiest for trade and people.

Due to the border shutdown, traders on both sides reported that tons of perishable products were lost, and Afghan travelers missed crucial hospital appointments or flights out of Pakistan.

The border was probably going to reopen today (Friday), according to a customs official who talked  a day earlier on the condition of anonymity. "Trade will be permitted beyond the Torkham border as of "Import and export, as well as the passageway for transit vehicles, will be restored starting on Friday," the spokesman had stated.

After meeting with Ubaid Ur Rehman Nizamani, head of Pakistan's mission in Kabul, the decision was made by acting Afghan foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi.

The Afghan government told Pakistan during the conference that Afghan soil would not be utilized against them. According to sources with knowledge of the matter, the decision to reopen the border followed this meeting. An officer working at the Torkham border told The News under the condition of anonymity that Pakistani authorities had asked the Afghan side to stop the building because it was against international law.

The Afghan government ignored this plea, nevertheless. Consequently,Because of the rising tensions resulting from this construction disagreement, the border was closed. Fired mortar shells The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), Customs, and other official establishments were hit by a number of mortar rounds thrown from the Afghan side, according to the on-duty border officer who spoke about the attack before the border was closed.

The official also mentioned that a mortar round fell in the border village of Bacha Mena and another struck a mosque in Pakistan. However, nobody was hurt as a result of these.

According to him, there was three hours of continuous firing that resulted in FC soldier Maqsood being shot and being transported to the hospital. While this border conflict is ongoing,On both sides of the border, a sizable number of people were trapped. Travelers, patients, women, kids, and trucks—some of which were carrying cargo—were among them. Hundreds of public and private offices were forced to close as a preventative safety step as a result of the situation.