PESHAWAR – The Pak-Afghan border at Torkham closed on Wednesday night after it was opened temporarily for two days.
Pakistan shut Torkham and Chaman border crossings after a deadly suicide attack at the shrine of Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar on February 16 in which over 80 people dead. The attack was claimed by Jumaatul Ahrar, a splinter group of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, operated from Afghanistan.
