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Torkham border crossing (Urdu, Persian, and Pashto: تورخم Tūrkham) is a major border crossing between the Pakistani city of Torkham and Afghanistan, located along the Grand Trunk Road on the international border between the two countries. It connects Nangarhar province of Afghanistan with Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Torkham (Pashto: تورخم, romanized: torxam; Urdu: طورخم) is a Pakistani town in Khyber District (until 2018 the Khyber Agency of the now defunct FATA), that is the location of the Torkham Border Crossing with Afghanistan just to the west of the historic Khyber Pass. Torkham lies at the end of the N-5 National Highway.
Afghanistan, [e] officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, [f] is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.It is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south, [g] Iran to the west, Turkmenistan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, Tajikistan to the northeast, and China to the northeast and east.
Border crossings with Afghanistan # Crossing Opened Province Road Purpose Status 1 Angur Ada [1] 23.09.2020 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-Paktika: Angoor Ada-Urgun Road Trade Operational 2 Badini [2] 22.09.2020 Balochistan-Zabul: Trade Operational 3 Chaman [3] 14.8.1947 Balochistan-Kandahar: N-25-A75 Miscellaneous Operational 4 Ghulam Khan [4] 23.08.2020
The Durand Line triggered a long-running controversy between the governments of Afghanistan and British India, [2] especially after the outbreak of the Third Anglo-Afghan War when Afghanistan's capital (Kabul) and its eastern city of Jalalabad were bombed by the No. 31 and No. 114 Squadrons of the British Royal Air Force in May 1919.
Ghulam Khan is on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. It is the third most important border crossing point between Pakistan and Afghanistan, after Chaman and Torkham. It connects Khost, Afghanistan, to Bannu, Pakistan. The border reopened for trade between Pakistan and Afghanistan on 9 March 2018.
The Afghanistan–Pakistan border barrier refers to the border barrier being built by Pakistan since March 2017 along its border with Afghanistan.The purpose of the barrier is to prevent terrorism, arms, and drug trafficking, as well as refugees, illegal immigration, smuggling and infiltration across the approximately 2,670-kilometre-long (1,660 mi) international border between Afghanistan and ...
Torkham is one of the major border crossings between Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is the busiest port of entry between the two countries, serving as a major economical hub for the province. Nangarhar is famous in Afghanistan for producing lemons , oranges , olives , peanuts and dates .