QUETTA: The Friendship Gate at the Pak-Afghan border couldn’t be opened for a fourth successive day, as sweats for continuing the border failed on Wednesday.
Sources said a delegation of the Afghan Taliban administration visited Chaman and condoled with the Pakistan security officers over the death of a dogface of the Frontier Corps who embraced martyrdom when fortified men opened fire at the Friendship Gate on Sunday.
The Afghan Taliban during their stay at the Friendship Gate held addresses with the Pakistani officers stationed at the border. They expressed their grief over the death of the dogface, nominating it as an unfortunate incident.
The sources said that Kabul and Islamabad were in contact with each other on the issue of the border check. still, no progress was reported regarding the opening of the border until the Taliban hand over to Pakistan the people involved in the blasting.
Meanwhile, the return of Pakistani and Afghan families to their separate countries was completed.
“We allowed all Pakistanis to come back to Chaman from Afghanistan who produced required legal documents, which proved their Pakistani nation,” an elderly functionary of the Chaman administration told Dawn, adding that the border was fully closed.
“We’re awaiting instructions from Islamabad about the opening of the border with Afghanistan,” the functionary said.
