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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.
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
Torkham Gate Momand Dara District: 2006: US Army [44] Nuristan Province ... The largest American base in Afghanistan. [65] Transitioned to Afghan control July 2021 ...
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.
The Khyber Border Coordination Center was a joint intelligence center located near Torkham, Pakistan.The facility facilitated the sharing of information between Afghanistan, Pakistan, the International Security Assistance Force and NATO governments and military personnel in their efforts against Taliban forces in the Khyber Pass area.
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In September 2010, China Metallurgical Group Corporation (MCC) signed an agreement [54] with the Afghan Minister of Mines to investigate construction of a north–south railway across Afghanistan, running from Mazar-i-Sharif to Kabul and then to the eastern border town of Torkham.